Thursday, 10 March 2011

Glaucous Gull at Menai Bridge

Following on from Alan's post, the Glaucous Gull was showing well from the small minor road along side the fields it was in. Never actually realised how big the birds were in size to the Herring Gull for example.

Managed to get a quick record shot whilst dodging the showers!





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  1. Rob Sandham10 March 2011 at 18:35

    Nice one- going to try for it in the morning.

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  2. Martin Jones10 March 2011 at 19:23

    Bird was still present on the slurry fields until 5.55pm at least when I had to leave.

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  3. AlexHJ10 March 2011 at 20:18

    I went for it this morning firstly and it wasn't there, got it on the second attempt after lunch. May have spent its time somewhere else until high tide maybe? I don't know if if thats been a similar trend this week?

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  4. Eddie Urbanski10 March 2011 at 21:59

    When Sally and I saw our first Glauc (on Enlli) about 1980 it flew towards us with two BH Gulls either side and looked the size of a mute swan! A week later we heard of a GBBG flying towards Cley beach with two tiny black backed gulls either side? That turned out to be a Black-browed Albatross!

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  5. Stephen Culley11 March 2011 at 17:53

    It showed well again at Lunch time today. It still hung around even when everything else left the field. Unfortunately Eddie there was no sign of any Alberts ;-)

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