Friday 2 April 2021

" Gull Crazy"


No surprise that photos from Arbroath Harbour are mostly gulls, but they're superseded by the Little Gulls from Monikie CP where they stage each year for a week or more before moving on to their breeding grounds in the Baltic and Russia. Three of the Great Black-backed photos are of ringed birds, I'll post the details when I get them.



11 gannets offshore at Arbroath, 3 in this long range video, click here


Little Gull at Monikie CP with a fly just about to be eaten, looks a bit like a Hawthorn Fly....


2nd calendar year Little Gull


adult Little Gull


also adult


the adult underwing


2nd calendar year


Herring Gull at Danger Point, Arbroath, where the Brothock Burn meets the sea







Great Black-backed Gull adult at Arbroath Harbour, not cropped, just resized from 5568 pixels


same as above


master of its domain


young GBBG


Yellow ring 146:M, on a 3rd calendar GBBG. Ringed on the Isle of May 17/6/2019, spent the last two winters in Tyne and Wear returning to Arbroath/Craigmill summer 2020 and this year


Yellow ring 169:M on a 2nd cy GBBG, the ringer  confirmed. Ringed on Isle of May 2/7/202, this is the first re-sighting


Yellow ring X:125 on an adult GBBG, over-exposed to light the ring up. Ringed on the Isle of May 3/7/2017, this is the first re-sighting


Eider drake on the Brothock spillway moving off due to a young girl with a laugh like a donkey


Eider drake on the Brothock spillway at Danger Point, grazing on the weed until it heard hee-haw, hee-haw


This young woman stood stock still for quite a time, she looked like one of those art installations, says an art luddite 


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