Pink legged LBBGull......? (1 Viewer)

[KenM]

A solitary LBBGull on the ice yesterday NE.London. By my reckoning, an adult bird with retained immature leg colour?

Don't recall seeing one quite like this before.

Comments welcome

Cheers

 

[Mark Lew1s]

Maybe it's just my monitor - but the legs look pale yellow to me.

 

[KenM]

Maybe it's just my monitor - but the legs look pale yellow to me.

It might be the play of light looking very much pink to the toes, but perhaps less so the legs (image 4), point being the colouration on an adult LBBG would normally look more strident yellow than it currently looks?

 

[Mark Lew1s]

From looking at Gull research images, LB leg colour looks to be quite variable at this time of year. Some have bright yellow legs but others have muck more muted colours, e.g.

http://www.gull-research.org/lbbg/lbbgnovdec/4f3002.html

 

[Nutcracker]

Maybe it's just my monitor - but the legs look pale yellow to me.

Pale yellow for me too.

 

[lou salomon]

large gulls with pale yellow legs (like this) often have a pinkish tone to the webs between their toes, sometimes the whole "foot" (per se) looks pinkish; this applies for e.g. caspian gulls, basic plumaged yellow-legged gulls and yellow-legged herring gulls. so, nothing out of common.