Yellow-legged Gulls ~ Juveniles in July

Friday 31 July 2015

July brings the first arrivals of juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls from Europe to the South East.
With most of the other large gulls looking bleached and worn these big, dark and fresh looking birds stand out.
The 5th was our first bird at the fishing boats, Dungeness with DW having a few earlier in the week at The Patch and RB scoring even earlier at Greenwich !!

05.07.15

   










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19.07.15

Very interesting bird with a heavily barred tail
Image No: 35 is the same bird as above just in better light


















25.07.15










These images highlight the plumage variation in Yellow-legged Gulls from fairly umarked tails to heavily barred and the same for the underwings from dark markings to hardly any markings just uniform brown .. 

2 comments:

chiddy said...

Great shots

Roos said...

Most wonderful captures!
Regards,
Roos