Ronayne88
Seán Ronayne
Hi all.
Well they are the only thing keeping me going (in terms of birding) during the winter. So here we go. Came across alot of good gulls today. Found two adult ring billed gulls and a first winter iceland gull at my patch and saw a 2nd w glaucous gull which i found as a first winter last jan. But i just need some clarification on two others. They are prob first of all an argenteus herring gull and a 1st winter lbb. But they seem a little strange. I just need some clarification
The herring gull has not streaking whatsoever to the head which rang alarm bells at first for caspian but im pretty sure im ok on that one... but why no streaking?? Secondly the presumed 1st lbb looked unusually dark in a chocolaty brown kinda way so i said i better make sure with tht too. SO please take a look at the pics and give me your opinions.
Thanks in advance.
Seán.
Well they are the only thing keeping me going (in terms of birding) during the winter. So here we go. Came across alot of good gulls today. Found two adult ring billed gulls and a first winter iceland gull at my patch and saw a 2nd w glaucous gull which i found as a first winter last jan. But i just need some clarification on two others. They are prob first of all an argenteus herring gull and a 1st winter lbb. But they seem a little strange. I just need some clarification
The herring gull has not streaking whatsoever to the head which rang alarm bells at first for caspian but im pretty sure im ok on that one... but why no streaking?? Secondly the presumed 1st lbb looked unusually dark in a chocolaty brown kinda way so i said i better make sure with tht too. SO please take a look at the pics and give me your opinions.
Thanks in advance.
Seán.