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Thursday, July 9, 2015

Gull Day

                         Black Headed gull numbers rising
           Lesser Black Backed, pale mantle due to sun.

                                 juv Black Headed



                               Late  1st summer LBB

                                                       Young Kestrel

First signs today of a real gull push with a steady flow of LBBs since early morning then joined by Herrings till late afternoon all >W  and >SW.
With that in mind plus reports of Med gulls at Ringstone, Calderbirds, a late evening check of Ogden was on the cards.
A record count this summer of 41 Black Headed gulls were along the east shoreline whilst 7 LBB gulls were on the water.
A careful sift through failed to find any Meds.
Otherwise it was the usual sp with 2 ad and 1 juv Kestrel up Ned Hill..
Still plenty Swifts around.
Good to see the Tracy mobile parked at Ogden but dipped on seeing Tracy.
BS