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Not very close. It is a fact that is very difficult to approach the large flocks. It's a simple issue: there is always a "hysterical" bird there, and it will fly when you are far away, screaming and scaring all the others...
 
1. Wounded Gull - Vadu (CT), August 25th 2012
2. Comparison - Vadu (CT), August 25th 2012
 

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This is a pic made on 22/08/2012 at Axios delta.
I am not sure about this gull...any idea???
 

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Here, a few images of Baltic Lesser Black-backed Gulls from Skeppsbron, Stockholm. Three 1st Calender birds present at the minute regularily, always interesting at this time of year to check them for signs of moult. Two of the three are showing moult, whilst one remains in full juvenile plumage. First two images are different sides of the same individual.
A couple of really nice pale phase birds are the moulting birds, they really are stunning gulls...

Pics taken today, 9th September 2012.
 

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Common Tern

I think this is a Common Tern with the winter plumage.
Photo taken today at Gallikos estuaries.
 

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hi pete,

yea possibly - it has the bill of a cach, the gc pattern of a HG, tt pattern of a mich etc. - looks like it could be one from the "central/east european hybridzation belt".

well, i know people who would say this is a herring gull :-O
 
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Herring Gulls?

A quick and rather unexciting question: are the inner primary windows on these two gulls (taken yesterday in Yorkshire, UK) enough to confirm their ID on this view as Herring? Cheers,

David
 

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in the first pic there's almost nothing to go on other than the impression of 2 herring gull shaped large gulls, well with a strongish window but considerably dark inner webs of inner primaries. in the second pic it is clear that at least the left one has a darkish body and is a 1cy herring gull. the other (right hand) looks like a 2cy herring gull, but could be a paler 1cy too. i'd favour 2cy because window is even more conspicous in 2nd cycle gulls - but then not only in herring gull: 2nd cycle YLG, caspian and even LBBG can show a considerable window, so ageing is always necessary when going on the pale part of inner primaries. nonetheless: 2 herring gulls for me.
 
hi odysseas!

a michahellis it is but at least 4cy, possibly even 5cy with those large apical spots. dark bill marks can appear in a few adults too in my experience.
 
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