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Common Gull, Daisyfield Lodge, 04.01.09 (Paul Wilson)
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Little Gull, Pennington Flash, 19.04.09 (John Tymon)
adult |
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Little Gull, Pennington Flash, 19.04.09 (John Tymon)
adult |
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Little Gull, Pennington Flash, 17.04.09 (John Tymon)
1st summer bird |
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Kittiwakes, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 21.03.08 (Rob Adderley)
some of the 16 strong flock present |
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Kittiwakes, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 21 03.08 (Steve Collins)
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Kittiwakes, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 21 03.08 (Steve Collins)
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Kittiwakes, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 21 03.08 (Steve Collins)
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Kittiwake, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 23.04.08 (Rob Adderley)
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Mediterranean Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 06.03.08 (Rob Adderley)
a first-winter bird |
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Mediterranean Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 06.03.08 (Rob Adderley)
a leucistic individual, something of a rarity in itself for that species! |
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Mediterranean Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 06.03.08 (Rob Adderley)
a leucistic individual, something of a rarity in itself for that species! |
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Mediterranean Gull, Pennington Flash, 23.03.08 (John Tymon)
cracking breeding plumaged adult |
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Mediterranean Gull, Pennington Flash, 23.03.08 (John Tymon)
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Mediterranean Gull, Pennington Flash, 18.07.08 (John Tymon)
A 1st summer bird |
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Mediterranean Gull, Pennington Flash, 18.07.08 (John Tymon)
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Mediterranean Gull, Pennington Flash, 18.07.08 (John Tymon)
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Mediterranean Gull, Pennington Flash, 12.10.08 (John Tymon)
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Mediterranean Gull, Pennington Flash, 12.10.08 (John Tymon)
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Mediterranean Gull, Pennington Flash, 12.10.08 (John Tymon)
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Mediterranean Gulls, Elton Reservoir, 14.04.09 (Paul Wilson)
an adult and 2nd summer |
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Mediterranean Gull, Elton Reservoir, 14.04.09 (Paul Wilson)
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Mediterranean Gull, Elton Reservoir, 14.04.09 (Paul Wilson)
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Mediterranean Gulls, Elton Reservoir, 14.04.09 (Paul Wilson)
with Black-headed Gulls |
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Black-headed Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 06.03.09 (Rob Adderley)
an apparently normal Black-headed Gull but for fully white primaries- obviously you can see the potential for mis-identification here! |
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Black-headed Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 06.03.09 (Rob Adderley)
an apparently normal Black-headed Gull but for fully white primaries- obviously you can see the potential for mis-identification here! |
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Black-headed Gull, Hollingworth Lake, 22.12.07 (Simon Hitchen)
a leucistic adult bird with very white upperparts, one of several such inidviduals of varying leucism at county sites in recent years |
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Black-headed Gull, Hollingworth Lake, 22.12.07 (Simon Hitchen)
a leucistic adult bird with very white upperparts, one of several such inidviduals of varying leucism at county sites in recent years |
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Black-headed Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 23.04.08 (Rob Adderley)
leucistic bird |
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Black-headed Gull, Pennington Flash, 18.07.08 (John Tymon)
An interesting leucistic bird |
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Black-headed Gull, Pennington Flash, 18.07.08 (John Tymon)
An interesting leucistic bird |
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Black-headed Gull, Elton Reservoir, 12.04.09 (Adrian Dancy)
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Black-headed Gull, Pennington Flash, 24.05.09 (John Tymon)
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Black-headed Gull, Pennington Flash, 24.05.09 (John Tymon)
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Black-headed Gull, Pennington Flash, 24.05.09 (John Tymon)
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Caspian Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 11.12.07 (Rob Adderley)
an adult bird which observers of this and the previous 2 (recent) records agree look decidedly similar |
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Caspian Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 11.12.07 (Rob Adderley)
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Caspian Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 11.12.07 (Rob Adderley)
almost certainly a female bird |
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Caspian Gull, Heaton Park Reservoir, 01.01.08 (Ian McKerchar)
a 2nd winter bird, full details, more photographs and identification pointers are on an article on the website. Please note that this photo has not been altered in any way and is entirely raw |
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Yellow-legged Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 24.09.07 (Rob Adderley)
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Yellow-legged Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 25.09.07 (Rob Adderley)
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Yellow-legged Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 25.09.07 (Rob Adderley)
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Yellow-legged Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 25.09.07 (Rob Adderley)
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Yellow-legged Gull, Heaton Park Reservoir, 30.09.07 (Ian McKerchar)
an adult bird |
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Yellow-legged Gull, Heaton Park Reservoir, 30.09.07 (Ian McKerchar)
the same adult bird |
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Yellow-legged Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 03.01.08 (Rob Adderley)
an adult bird early in the roost |
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Yellow-legged Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 25.03.08 (Rob Adderley)
a nice adult |
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Yellow-legged Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 25.03.08 (Rob Adderley)
just showing the highly distinctive underside of the outermost primary (P10), which is very dark (blackish) with a small white mirror |
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Yellow-legged Gull, Pennington Flash, 27.01.09 (David Winnard)
a 4th winter individual |
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Yellow-legged Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 04.02.09 (Rob Adderley)
a 3rd-winter bird |
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Yellow-legged Gull, Pennington Flash, 08.02.09 (John Tymon)
a 4th winter bird with an argenteus Herring Gull (left). Note the obvious black markings on the primary coverts indicative of this age group |
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Yellow-legged Gull, Pennington Flash, 08.02.09 (John Tymon)
it's findness for Warburtons bread is fairly obvious from this image |
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Yellow-legged Gull, Pennington Flash, 08.02.09 (John Tymon)
counting from the outer primary (p10) we can clearly make out the broad black band on p5 so distinctive for this species and also the lonzenge shaped miror on p10 and the very small mirror on p9 |
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Yellow-legged Gull, Pennington Flash, 08.02.09 (John Tymon)
note the difference in head and bill shape between it and the Herring Gull on the right, especially the 'fullness' of the head and depth and overall bulkiness of the bill |
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Yellow-legged Gull, Pennington Flash, 08.02.09 (John Tymon)
the head shape of the Yellow-legged Gull (far right) is again clearly diferent form the Herring Gulls, especially on the forehead, note also the mantle tones involved |
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Yellow-legged Gull, Pennington Flash, 08.02.09 (John Tymon)
head shape again |
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Yellow-legged Gull, Pennington Flash, 08.02.09 (John Tymon)
again there are obviously 6 primaries with considerable and obvious black on them and the band on p5 is spot on for this species |
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Yellow-legged Gull, Pennington Flash, 08.02.09 (John Tymon)
note the black subterminally on the bill in this image, once again indicative of a 4th winter bird |
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Yellow-legged Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 04.02.09 (Rob Adderley)
3rd winter bird |
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Herring Gull, Heaton Park Reservoir, 03.01.08 (Ian McKerchar)
an adult argentatus bird, with darker grey upperparts, coarsely marked head and on this bird very little black in the wing tips |
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Herring Gull, Heaton Park Reservoir, 03.01.08 (Ian McKerchar)
although difficult to see, note the almost lack of black in the tips of the outer primaries of this bird |
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Herring Gull, Heaton Park Reservoir, 03.01.08 (Ian McKerchar)
the full extent of the extensive white in the wing tips is just visible here |
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Herring Gull, Heaton Park Reservoir, 04.01.08 (Ian McKerchar)
this adult individual shows the characteristic wing tip pattern of argentatus |
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Lesser Black-backed Gull, Pennington Flash, 08.09.07 (John Tymon)
a juvenile bird |
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Lesser Black-backed Gull, Pennington Flash, 12.10.07 (John Tymon)
note how most of the outer right wing (seen here) seems to have been severed off rather cleanly, with a straight cut across them. Perhaps as a result of an encounter with a fox, but it looks a little more industrial than that, perhaps it actually caught it's wing in something? |
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Iceland gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 06.12.07 (Rob Adderley)
a first winter plumaged bird |
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Iceland gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 06.12.07 (Rob Adderley)
a first winter plumaged bird |
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Iceland Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 20.02.09 (Paul Hammond)
1st summer bird |
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Iceland Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 20.02.09 (Paul Hammond)
1st summer bird |
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Iceland Gull, Scotmans Flash, 28.02.09 (Dave Broome)
a juvenile bird, taken with a 2MP mobile phone camera through a 25 year old scope! |
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Iceland Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 06.03.09 (Rob Adderley)
1st winter bird |
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Iceland Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 06.03.09 (Rob Adderley)
1st winter bird |
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Iceland Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 06.03.09 (Rob Adderley)
2nd winter bird |
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Iceland Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 06.03.09 (Roy Travis)
2nd winter bird |
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Iceland Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 06.03.09 (Roy Travis)
2nd winter bird |
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Iceland Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 07.03.09 (Paul Hammond)
2nd winter bird |
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Iceland Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 07.03.09 (Paul Hammond)
2nd winter bird |
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Iceland Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 07.03.09 (Paul Hammond)
2nd winter bird |
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Iceland Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 07.03.09 (Paul Hammond)
2nd winter bird |
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Iceland Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 11.03.09 (Rob Adderley)
2nd winter bird |
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Iceland Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 11.03.09 (Rob Adderley)
2nd winter bird |
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Iceland Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 11.03.09 (Rob Adderley)
2nd winter bird |
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Iceland Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 16.03.09 (Paul Hammond)
2nd winter/summer |
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Iceland Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 18.03.09 (Paul Hackett)
2nd winter/summer |
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Iceland Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 19.03.09 (Paul Hammond)
seeking out and munching worms along the reservoir bankings with Black-headed Gulls |
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Glaucous Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 13.12.07 (Rob Adderley)
a 1st winter bird |
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Glaucous Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 13.12.07 (Rob Adderley)
a 1st winter bird |
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Glaucous Gull, Heaton Park Reservoir, 11.01.08 (Rob Adderley)
taken in very poor light |
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Glaucous Gull, Heaton Park Reservoir, 11.01.08 (Rob Adderley)
taken in very poor light |
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Glaucous Gull, Heaton Park Reservoir, 19.01.08 (Tom McKinney)
a nice first winter bird |
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Glaucous Gull, Heaton Park Reservoir, 19.01.08 (Tom McKinney)
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Glaucous Gull, Heaton Park Reservoir, 19.01.08 (Pete Berry)
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Glaucous Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 04.01.09 (Paul Heaton)
one of two birds in the evening roost on that date |
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Glaucous Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 23.01.09 (Rob Adderley)
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Glaucous Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 24.01.09 (Paul Hammond)
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Glaucous Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 16.02.09 (Rob Adderley)
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Glaucous Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 16.02.09 (Rob Adderley)
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Glaucous Gull, Audenshaw Reservoirs, 22.02.09 (Rob Adderley)
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