With it being a cold, damp day, we hung around for a bit then went to Padstowe for a little while. Nothing spectacular; a few Turnstone were knocking around and a whole pile of gulls were on the islands. I've always found gull ID tricky, and there was a gull which looked small in comparison to the rest of them, which I've left in. I'd appreciate any help with the ID.
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| friendly Robin |
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| Wren |
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| Turnstone |
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The day after was pretty dull, and we only went back to Looe for a bit where the local birds were around.
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| Little Egret |
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| Little Egret |
However, 2 surprises happened afterwards. Firstly, when we left the town about 3 km on I spotted 3 Egrets fly low over the road into the fields, then up and North. My initial thought were Cattle Egret,and 2 were seen near Bodmin the following day. Nonetheless, they could have been Little Egrets flying towards the river so I'll have to wait to add that record - the first for Beddington Farmlands only hung around while I was here! Secondly, in an evening journey a Tawny Owl flew very low across the road and a possible Nightjar also flew above the car in front of us.
The last day, before our journey back was to Rame Head Peninsula, where I hoped to see some good birds.
Hi Arjun, nice gull pic. You've got two juvenile Herring Gulls, an near-adult Great Black-backed Gull and five Mediterranean Gulls (one adult winter, one second- winter, one juvenile moulting into first-winter and two which are obscured but look like an adult (just the bill showing) and possibly another second-winter with a darkish looking bill).
ReplyDeleteThanks Peter, nice to get some Med Gulls.
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