lou salomon
the birdonist
so you don't have to look at the pest, jane, is it that? o
Hope it was on your side of the Mersey Pete!
so you don't have to look at the pest, jane, is it that? o
Indeed it was Jane! Not a sniff of the Smig in a good few hours gulling but this was ample compensation.
View attachment 314359Hi folks, any comments welcome on this Gull seen recently in NW England.
Hi Pete.
From my phone computer, LBBG
JanJ
good(?) excuse, jan.
Are all the wing coverts on the su...e you ever seen any LBBG with such long legs?
Do we think is just a dark argentatus?.
I've been looking through photos of a distant gull flock that a smiths-a-like later emerged from!
hard to tell but inner 2 MC look replaced. even without 2nd gen coverts it would work for caspian. have you ever seen any LBBG with such long legs?
Hi Jane, difficult to say for sure from these pics but the forewing of this bird certainly looks paler than the Smig at Seaforth, and the pale inner primary wedge isn`t as contrasting.Stiil quite a few Argies moving through at the moment including both very dark and very pale 2cys.
hard to tell but inner 2 MC look replaced. even without 2nd gen coverts it would work for caspian. have you ever seen any LBBG with such long legs?
Hi Jan, well thats interesting. I`ve shown this pic to ten others as well as on here and everyone has said its a Casp, I`m more than willing to hear why its either a LBB as you say or a Casp as Lou says...intriguing!
cheers, Pete.
Pete.
I´m not 100% sure about LBBG but with such a bill (if correctly shown in this pic), I don´t see a Caspian in any case. Some more pic would do the trick I guess.
JanJ
Although I couldn`t get a pic of the bird in flight, it had a very pale underwing, an obvious pale wedge formed by the inner primaries and a "Rough-leg type" tail pattern.
this should clinch it together with what i mentioned about the bird on ground!