Having gone solo to see the Kelp gull yesterday, this morning I returned with Jims and took my camera along this time.
The bird spent most of the time sitting on the railings but made a couple of flights, one to sniff out a dead trout and another to check out the commotion caused as the Black-headed gulls chased bread offered up by a few of the toggers. We picked out several adult Yellow-legged gulls and saw another bird later ID'd as a Caspian. Great to catch up with a few locals again too and I got home in time to fix the father-in-laws Shower as promised.
Apologies in advance for the image overload............
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| Cape Gull |
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| Cape Gull |
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| Cape Gull |
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| Cape Gull |
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| Cape Gull |
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| Cape Gull |
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| Cape Gull |
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| Cape Gull |
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| Yellow-legged Gull |
I have to admit I hadn't heard of Cape gull until this birds arrival but have educated myself since.
Cape Gull is a recently identified sub species of Kelp Gull and comes Africa. (Darker eye on Cape than Kelp I'm told) This bird is considered to be a second summer bird and thought to have arrived with the recent movement of Yellow-legged Gulls from southern Europe.
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