Lez Fairclough wrote:Hi Rob, I'm anything but a Gull expert & was expecting to be corrected, but obviously the yellow legs & more the curved end of bill shape was what made me think it could have been one.
As for the domestic Goose it was the whitish tip to the beak & patterned neck feathers that made me think it could be some kind of hybrid type Sebastopol.
Many thanks for the comments Lez.
Quick hour at noon whilst the wife was having a scan - of note :-
Domestic Sebastopol type Goose on the lake with what I think was a Yellow-Legged Gull close by, also a Kingfisher flying across.
Also seen Tufted Ducks; Coal Tit; Nuthatch; Song Thrush in song; Carrion Crows; M & F Chaffinch & Goldfinch.
Hi Lez, looks like a standard Lesser Black-backed Gull if Im not mistaken, and I thought Sebastopols are more visually striking, like a mass of curly white feathers.
Quick hour at noon whilst the wife was having a scan - of note :-
Domestic Sebastopol type Goose on the lake with what I think was a Yellow-Legged Gull close by, also a Kingfisher flying across.
Also seen Tufted Ducks; Coal Tit; Nuthatch; Song Thrush in song; Carrion Crows; M & F Chaffinch & Goldfinch.
Hi Lez, looks like a standard Lesser Black-backed Gull if Im not mistaken, and I thought Sebastopols are more visually striking, like a mass of curly white feathers.
Pr Nuthatch feeding young as to be a 1st for here Tufted Duck broods 11 + 6 still going strong 1 Swallow hunting flys nr the steps WOW 6 B H Gulls (1 Juv) 9 Canada Geese 55 Mallard Robins feeding young
yesterday (19th) 2 sparrowhawks male and female flying around the abandoned pagefield campus and 7 mandarins on the pond (5 male, 2 female). also a curious squirrel walked up to me and my two friends and got within 6 feet, walked around us, eyeing us up then calmly walked into the undergroath there was a mutual understanding
there was a mutual understanding 