and dark bullet hole eye. To be looked into.
1445 hrs and out on the gull run. I had planned for Oxenhope reservoir but saddos were practicing their killing skills so it was a matter of timing, catching the gulls still in the fields before they headed off to the reservoir roost. Checking gulls in the field is much easier than scanning through 10,000 gulls all forced onto the water due to lack of banking.
The light was poor so the pics were not up to much but good enough to scan through on the computer back at home.
The fields around the Dog and Gun at Oxenhope were white with gulls, many in fields too far from the road to scan through and by the time I drove back the fields were empty with hundreds of gulls overhead making for the water.
Leeming reservoir held around 400 gulls which slowly started leaving in small groups heading for the roost. I was surprised by the number of Herring gulls present with 8 on Leeming and at least 10 that I could see in the Dog and Gun fields.
One third winter gull stood out from the nearby Herrings having a much whiter head with dark hooked bill and a small black bullet hole eye but I darent even mention Caspian until I,ve done some more research on it.
An amazing feeling to be surrounded by gulls in the fields and when they all blast off the sky is literally filled with gulls of every size and age.
A quick stop off at Ogden in near dark on the way home found around 200 small gulls just starting to leave for the roost.,
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