2009 Photos
Yellow-legged Gulls
Caspian Gull
Glaucous Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Iceland Gull
Mediterranean Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Kittiwake
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Yellow-legged Gull, Private Site, Essex 1st August 2009
Despite being worn and fairly tatty this is smart looking gull.
Yellow-legged Gull, Private Site, Essex 15th August 2009
This doesn't appear to be the same bird from two weeks previous but a lot can change in two weeks.
Yellow-legged Gull, Private Site, Essex 14th February 2009
A fine individual. Yellow-legs are outnumbered here at the moment by white-wingers and Caspians: digiscoped
Yellow-legged Gull, Private Site, Essex 29th August 2009
A good number of Yellow-legged Gulls present during the last week of August; all showing various stages of moult and head streaking patterning, ranging from none to heavy.
Yellow-legged Gull, Private Site, Essex 29th August 2009
This third year bird was clearly a few shades darker than the surrounding Herring Gulls and exhibits pale pasty fleshy coloured legs. The bill is bulbous tipped and shows a prominent band. The primaries lack any spots and mirrors though perhaps the outmost has a tatty pale tip.
Yellow-legged Gull, Private Site, Essex 29th August 2009
There has been a fairly steady run of juvenile birds with this one now already showing a couple of replaced scapulars; this was not present yet on the left side of the bird.
Herring Gull (variants)
Ring-billed Gull
Yellow-legged Gull, Private Site, Essex 6th September 2009
Juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls don't come much better. Note that already this bird is showing replaced scapulars, something that the Herring Gulls present where not showing.