Thursday 15 August 2019

Yellow-legged Gulls!

 Swifts over the New Diggings early this morning
07.30-08.30 from the sea watch hide:
Gannet: 30W   11E
Cormorant: 19 around
Arctic Skua: 1 W  DP
Kittiwake: 1 around
Sandwich tern: 64W.    C20 feeding offshore
Common tern: 14W     c15 feeding off shore
Harbour Porpoise: 2+
Hummingbird Hawkmoth: 2 resting on perimeter wall
1 of 2 Hummingbird Hawkmoths warming up on the power station perimeter wall
A minimum of 4 juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls at the fishing boats this afternoon
I spent a couple of hours at the fishing boats this afternoon with JTM, where a single Arctic Skua was harassing the very few Terns that were present, fortunately there were a few Gulls present which kept us occupied. This evening at the ARC from Hanson 3 Wood Sandpipers, 4 Ruff, Common Sandpipers, Little ringed Plovers etc. Very little change in the last couple of weeks.
 Juvenile Yellow-legged Gull
  Juvenile Yellow-legged Gull
  Juvenile Yellow-legged Gull
  Juvenile Yellow-legged Gull
  Juvenile Yellow-legged Gull
 Fulmar past the fishing boats
 Juvenile/1w Mediterranean Gull at the fishing boats
 Herring Gull feeding on the huge amounts of shellfish and small fry washed up in the gales
 Great Black-backed Gull JK889 at the fishing boats this afternoon I first recorded it a week ago.
Herring Gull MX3T at the fishing boats this afternoon. I last recorded it on 09/02/2019
Red Underwing a common moth but rarely find them in the trap

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