Thursday, 25 February 2016

Mainly Gulls! - at LMGP

A walk around the lake was reasonably productive with three Chiffchaffs, a GreyWagtail, three Snipe, a Water Rail and thousands of Gulls!!

This Water Rail was feeding in the stream to the east of the lake.

Mediterranean Gull
Seen on the east of the lake but digiscoped from the west side!

Mediterranean Gull 
Possibly the same bird as above but much later and asleep on the west side of the sand spit.

Gull roost on the sand spit.
Mainly mixture of Black-headed, Common, Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gulls

Possibly the biggest gull roost I have seen here with an estimated 5000 Common Gulls, 3000 Black-headed Gulls, 50 Herring Gulls and 50 Lesser-Black-backed Gulls.

As usual something spooked the gulls with an impressive result!  A huge flock on the water in the background of this photo did not move.  They extend well to the right of this photo.  Plus there are many more to the left and right foreground of this photo.

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