Saturday, 7 January 2012

Even more GULLS

Waterside had an interesting Ring-billed Gull or could even be a hybrid. I almost did not take the shot as it had blue legs which would normally be a Common Gull, a RBG should have yellow legs. But this gull says Ring-bill all the way. Got some reasonably flight shots of a 1st winter Iceland Gull at Waterside. A 2nd winter Iceland also dropped in for a few min.








3 comments:

Morg said...

Hi Tom

I missed this bird at Waterside that day by just a few minutes.

Looking at the photos it is the same individual that was down on the bay earlier. see:

http://birdsgalway.blogspot.com/2012/01/even-more-gulls.html

All the best

Geoff

Morg said...

That's the wrong link!!

Take 2:

http://morgithology.blogspot.com/2012/01/2nd-winter-ring-billed-gull-galway.html

Geoff

birdsgalway said...

Geoff looks good to be the same bird. I first seen this bird back in July. God only knows where it was for the past few months
http://birdsgalway.blogspot.com/2011/07/rings-and-terns.html