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BS




Friday, July 22, 2022

A bonus for Wednesdays Ogden report and todays birding.

 

Wednesdays Ogden Yellow Legged Herring gull. Thanks to MCs ever observant eye
for detail, the photos I took turned out to be 2 separate YL Herrings. As Mick pointed out,
the above gull has a light eye  and 4 white primary tips whilst the gull below has a dark eye, 
being slightly younger, plus 3 white primary tips, these show on one or the other blog pics.
                    Thanks to Mick for being so observant again.


Todays birding, well the luck had to run out sometime!!
                  A real foggy morning at Fly Flatts clearing slightly to heavy mist and constant rain throughout at 12 degrees on a light E>2.
                    The first morning for a long time with no waders present although no visibility to scope the north shore. Wheatear were the birds of the day with 9 , mainly adults in autumn plumage, ground hopping across the shore and disappearing south over the Flat Moor.
                    No Terns today , though conditions were right, and just 3 BH and 9 LBB gulls on the shore.
                   A mid afternoon gull check at Ogden found numbers well down with around 80 LBB,
7 Herring, c 50 Black Headed and 3 Common with no sign of Yellow Legged today. As always, a pleasure to meet DJS at Ogden as I was leaving.
                 With the wind away from the east and back to a light south, hopefully it will eliminate the morning fog.
BS