Photos below from yesterday.
A bright clear morning at Leeshaw with cloudless skies other than the usual bank of thick cloud to the SW. A temp of 16 degrees but feeling much cooler in the brisk SW>4 at 16 degrees.
Hardly the start of the gull season and already its got me head scratting.
This morning Leeshaw produced the GBB gull which has been hanging around a couple of weeks now whilst briefly, way over on the NW bank, a 2 CY Herring type with dull yellow legs showed through the scope though the leg colour fails to show up on the poor image.
Around 40 LBB gulls were present along with c 100 Black Headed and 3 Herring, but strangely, no Common gull as yet, though I,m getting them in Foxhill park and in the Raggalds fields.
A single Teal was on the water with the usual geese etc whilst a Dipper was down in the beck. No sign of movement other than a few Mipits and Goldfinch blogging though not much sky watching done due to the gulls.
A gull I photographed yesterday is showing signs of possible Caspian, being very white headed and long billed with sloping forehead but this, along with todays possible Yellow Legged are under investigation.
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