gulls (9 Viewers)

[Parker]

You know that is one gull that I could get enthusiastic about.

Same here! Surely we're due one in the UK soon. Nice pics Lou.

 

[Cristian Mihai]

Drago(i)esti (IL), June 10th 2012.

 

[lou salomon]

a very pale eyed cach with very much white in wingtip (p9 mirror almost as large as p10 mirror and on p9 connected to the tongue).
is that one of the possible breeding candidates? no possibility at dridu lake or mabe at one of the isles at ulmu-lake or adjacent reservoirs?
nice to see something from muntenia in the summer "hole" (regarding gull pics and obs. e.g. on GRF)

cheers

 

[Cristian Mihai]

Maybe I will find some time to check Dridu area. I'm pretty sure that it has to be a small colony somewhere around Bucharest.

 

[lou salomon]

but you know that adults can turn up anytime anywhere, lots of nonbreeders...

on the other hand it would be very unlikely that it doesn't breed somewhere around bucharest

 

[ody]

Are they all Larus minutus????

 

[Cristian Mihai]

Are they all Larus minutus????

Yes, they are.

 

[Cristian Mihai]

Yellow-legged Gull eating a pigeon - Constanta (Romania), June 21st 2012.

 

[Cristian Mihai]

Juveniles (Yellow-legged Gull)

 

[Cristian Mihai]

Two more pics with michahellis taken on June 22nd in Constanta. I have some more pics with juveniles, but I haven't managed to prepare them for web.

 

[Cristian Mihai]

Juvenile YLG - Constanta, June 22nd 2012

 

[lou salomon]

that's a nice example of a recently fledged mich. note how deep ochre/buff and long fringes are, primaries and rectrices not fully grown, head quite uniform dark - although the "mich-mask" is well visible.

i've got a good series of cach pics by j. szabo senior from murigiol (largest and best known pontic gull colony in romania) including some nice fresh juveniles of that species also (which i didn't have very much before in my coll.). unfortunately i can't open them in my photoshop version and converting them with fast stone image viewer from nikon raw to jpgs just killled their quality. got to find another way. maybe with image converter plus? despite of that, here are some redarkened pics of this series:

note the unsual strong subterminal band on p10 in the adult (first pic), and the dark pattern of head and underwing in the 2 flying juvs

 

[Cristian Mihai]

Lou, I will try to send you by transfer.ro some original pics taken in Constanta on June 22nd (three fresh juveniles michahellis - brothers; interesting - it seems that one of the parents was a 3cy bird).

 

[Cristian Mihai]

Here is the link:
http://dl.transfer.ro/transfer_ro-11jul-d00b5f8b966.zip
The presumed parent is the second pic in post #2430

 

[lou salomon]

hard to believe the 3cy was one of the parents...

note these axilliaries in a juv cach (murighiol, 26.6.2012, j.szabo sen.):

 

[tittletattler]

hard to believe the 3cy was one of the parents...

note these axilliaries in a juv cach (murighiol, 26.6.2012, j.szabo sen.):

It would be interesting to know if the 3cyr was the male or the female.

Some great pics of juvs by the way. Very useful!

Cheers,

Andy

 

[Cristian Mihai]

Yellow-legged Gull eating a pigeon - Constanta, June 21st 2012

 

[Qingcol]

Watching from Rumps Point Cornwall last evening I was intrigued and puzzled by this passing juvenile Gull (photo) First impressions were of a large (larger than local Herring Gulls) with moderately long wings, smallish flat crowned head, all dark tail with wide dark bars to upper-tail coverts, the uniform brown head and body strongly suggested ‘smithsonianus’ though the under-tail coverts showed no strong barring suggesting to me perhaps ‘atlantis’ that said there is no way you could describe the rump as being whitish. I did manage to scribble a fairly detailed description in the short time the bird was in view and of course I realise this would be an absurdly early date for juvenile ‘smithsonianus’?

 

[Cristian Mihai]

Watching from Rumps Point Cornwall last evening I was intrigued and puzzled by this passing juvenile Gull (photo) First impressions were of a large (larger than local Herring Gulls) with moderately long wings, smallish flat crowned head, all dark tail with wide dark bars to upper-tail coverts, the uniform brown head and body strongly suggested ‘smithsonianus’ though the under-tail coverts showed no strong barring suggesting to me perhaps ‘atlantis’ that said there is no way you could describe the rump as being whitish. I did manage to scribble a fairly detailed description in the short time the bird was in view and of course I realise this would be an absurdly early date for juvenile ‘smithsonianus’?

More pics?

 

[Qingcol]

More pics?

Sorry no more photos, with a passing bird I had to choose pics or a good look.