As I was in Weymouth this afternoon, I dropped into the Swannery Car Park to check out the gulls. There has been an adult Yellow-legged Gull in the car park yesterday, sadly not today, but there were a dozen or so Herring Gulls, 4 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 2 Great Black-backed Gulls and several Black-headed Gulls.
Sadly a Lesser Black-backed Gull and a Herring Gull were covered in oil.
Here are a few images from this afternoon:
Six Black-headed Gulls, all moulting into their Summer 'black' hoods.
The 4 Lesser Black-backed Gulls and in the foreground 2 Herring Gulls.
An adult Great Black-backed Gull
And a 1st winter Great Black-backed Gull
Sadly one of the Lesser Black-backed Gulls was covered in oil as was.............
.........this 2nd winter Herring Gull.
Wakeham
Storm Erik hit the south coast today with gusts up to 50 mph. Not my photo but this was taken at around 8:00am this morning. Click Here
The feeders in the back garden were pretty quiet and the only birds to visit were a couple of hardy Great Tits.
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On this day..........
2018
Today's Sightings Here