Tide Perfect at Chouet landfill Beach

A rising tide at just the right time this morning resulted in near perfect viewing of the gulls on Chouet landfill Beach. As a result I never got into the landfill, but waited in the car at the beach for many of the gulls come to bathe and rest on the beach immediately after feeding at the landfill.

Highlights this morning included several pairs of Herring Gulls copulating, and much courtship behaviour from the Lesser Black-backed Gulls.

Herring Gulls copulating on Chouet landfill Beach 22 March 2010 - PKV

LBBG White 8.Z3 and partner - Chouet landfill Beach 22 March 2010 - PKV

Gulls on Chouet Landfill Beach 22 March 2010 - PKV

LBBG White 4.Z4 CLB - 22 March 2010 - PKV

LBBG White 1.T9 CLB - 22 March 2010 - PKV

Another highlight was a British metal-ringed LBBG - London GA20677LBBG London GA20677 Chouet landfill Beach 22 March 2010 - PKV

Yellow-legged Gull - Chouet landfill Beach 22 March 2010 - PKV

Herring Gull White 7M6 - CLB 22 March 2010 - PKV

The above Herring Gull is one of the Herring Gulls ringed as chicks in Guernsey by Jamie Hooper that ventured to Portugal and Spain in its youth, but it is now back breeding in Guernsey!