Monday 29 January 2018

Glaucous gull

At the beginning of Jan (07) we headed of to Llanddulas to hopefully see the Glaucous Gull (I am not that great with Gull id's but this one seemed easy enough even for me).

As we headed out near Wrinehill on the Staffs/Cheshire boarder we came across a large group of Partridge which held a couple of Grey Partridge in among the mainly Red Legged Partridge flock.


We thought this meant our luck was in but on our first port of call in North Wales (Kinmel Bay) we just couldn't find the Snow Bunting but there were quite a few Sky Lark feeding along the strand line on the beach.



As we pulled up most of the Gulls had just departed and we were told that a dog walker had flushed the lot off the beach a few were returning so we hung around and just generally explored the beach front to see what we could find.
Just by the car park a small group of Goldfinch were feeding allowing me to grab a few shots.



Along the river we found a nice Grey Wagtail plus even better a King Fisher putting on a great little show for everyone as it charged up and down the river.



We did eventually track down our target bird the Glaucous Gull further along the coast near the caravan park.







No comments:

Post a Comment