Given Carl Baggot's virtually daily updates on the numbers of Caspian Gulls he is seeing at Shawell Lagoons in Leicestershire ( see
Caspian Gulls at Shawell in 2014 ) , and the number seen at Dungeness so far this autumn...you would have thought I could have found one by now amongst the thousands of Herring Gulls using Chouet landfill. A
2nd Winter Yellow-legged Gull was some compensation yesterday...but the big one still eludes me - despite checking many thousands of Herring Gulls! I'm patiently awaiting the first cold snap of the autumn to see if that may stir things up a little...but the fact that 32 of the 33 cr Great Black-backed Gulls recorded yesterday are birds already known on the island shows that gull movements are still quite limited here at the moment.
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Gulls at Chouet Landfill (c) PKV |
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Gulls on Chouet Landfill Beach (c) PKV |
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One of my locally ringed GBBGs - Yellow 1.VV4 (c) PKV |
If you've not had a Caspian yet, then that means something much better will turn up ...
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