Sunday, 6 February 2022

London Caspian Gulling


Facebook will probably do a great job of reducing the quality of these images but hopefully they will still be good enough to view.

Yesterday I spent the afternoon at Thamesmead along the river Thames looking for Caspian Gulls, a species that has dramatically reduced in numbers locally following landfill closures.

I needed a Caspian Gull fix and today was one of the best in a few years with eight different birds seen, an adult and seven 1st-winters, though potentially one of these could well be a hybrid.

Plenty of cheap loaves were deployed on the Thames gulls today.

 

Bird 1





Bird 2 




Bird 3





Bird 4




Bird 5




Bird 6




Bird 7




Bird 8