Rather quiet with the main interest provided by an arrival of juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls with five around the dam this morning and swelling the Yellow-leg total to 21 today. Another gull further out on the reservoir could well have been a juvenile Caspian/Herring hybrid and had most of the features of the former species though the structure was rather akin to a small type Herring Gull. Very quiet on the wader front just 2 Common Sandpipers, 5 Green Sandpipers. Otherwise 1 Little Egret and 21 Yellow Wagtails werethe best of it.
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| juvenile Yellow-Legged Gull - note the strong coloration, white rump with broad black tail band with broad white tips, virtual absence of a pale window on inner primaries with the inner webs only slightly paler than the outers |
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| juvenile Yellow-Legged Gull |
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| juvenile gull sp - possibly HerringxCaspian hybrid but actually also looks like a juvenile Baltic or Heuglins - not claiming it as anything! |
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