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  1. M

    gulls

    A few crops of a distant LWHG that has had me scratching my head a little. We get lots of argenteus and a fair few argentatus here in Edinburgh but this seems to have an odd snout, pale underwing and dark upperwing that together remind me of cachinnans (not that I've ever seen one...). To be...
  2. M

    gulls

    I did consider a yellowish legged herring gull but thought that the darker shade of the upperparts would effectively exclude it. The mantle shade was equivalent to YLG (previous observers have logged it as a possible YLG) and the Herring Gulls that we see with this mantle shade typically show...
  3. M

    gulls

    Argentatus x fuscus? This bird in East Lothian today looks to me like a classic Herring x LBBG hybrid - any comments? Geoff
  4. M

    gulls

    I am going round in circles with this sub-adult bird that I photographed yesterday in Edinburgh. It is of a type debated on BF before and the candidates as far as I can see are argentatus Herring Gull, graellsii LBBG or hybrid Herring x LBB. Please let me know what you think. I suppose I am...
  5. M

    gulls

    The question is LBBG or Herring Gull. In the field I thought the latter but now am leaning toward the former. Either way it is an unusual though not unrecorded dark plumage. Photographed 19 September, Edinburgh. Sorry about the quality - combined effect of distance, lens, light quality and me...
  6. M

    gulls

    Apologies for what are likely to be the worst photos ever added to this thread, but I think this could well be a 2nd winter northern argentatus Herring Gull. Photos taken at Musselburgh, Scotland, on 3rd April. Essentially it was a large pale bird with glaucous-like bill with dark markings...
  7. M

    gulls

    1cy gulls Phonescoped pics of 1cy gulls: GBBG, graellsii LBBG, and graellsii? I thought the last one was an argenteus HG when I was photographing it but have gone for LBBG - is that correct? Geoff All taken 20-21 Sept, Edinburgh
  8. M

    gulls

    Taken from dry land - from the boulders of Boulders Beach, Cape of Good Hope From what I can gather they are a little more distant at Kniffiss... Geoff
  9. M

    gulls

    Lou Sorry to be a bit sneaky by mixing up the continents a little, but, hats off to you, you have now guessed them all correctly at one point or another... 1. cape/kelp gull (Cape of Good Hope, RSA 29/4/07) 2. western/occidentalis (Santa Monica, CA, USA 9/4/10) 3. graellsii LBBG (Farne...
  10. M

    gulls

    Ok, I'll give you the UK pair that Lou has guessed correctly already... :clap: and the other two are from further afield...
  11. M

    gulls

    Well that's 2 out of 4 ;)
  12. M

    gulls

    Yes, I saw some earlier in the thread, wasn't sure whether it would be welcomed... Anyway, I'd say that's a score of 1 out of 4 Lou... :eek!:
  13. M

    gulls

    Mystery wings... Haven't really been able to look at any gulls for a few days so I thought I'd crop some old shots for you to have a go at...
  14. M

    gulls

    Thanks for the reply Lou. As a very small number of the birds that I have seen over the last couple of months in the SE of Scotland seem to have this pattern I wondered whether they could be southern argentatus (i.e. non dark mantled) that are summering here but typically breed elsewhere - maybe...
  15. M

    gulls

    Any comments on the central bird? Geoff
  16. M

    gulls

    Wow, I have just found this thread so will need a few weeks to read through it!!! Here's a group of gulls taken in Edinburgh, Scotland, this week... Hoped there were three species here, but looks like just the two... Also attached is the P10 of a herring gull taken today - how common is this...
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