Lee Harrison's Nature Photography.: Mediterranean Gull

Well I had another day up at Heysham yesterday, trying to connect with my new obsession of the Med Gull, I have always loved gulls, I find them fascinating for some some reason and lately I have been stuck by envy when a few people I know had fantastic views of a moulting adult Sabine's Gull off New Brighton, a bird that I have always wanted to see.

But still I'm sure that there will always be other opportunities. I hope.

Anyway the adult still managed to elude me but I managed to get a few nice shots of the Juvenile, hope you like them...

Well this was the closest thing I got to an adult... a 3cy gull, still looking good

Well I hope that you like these, I'm quite happy with this selection,

During the writing of this blog I noticed that this Juv. gull was suporting a very stylish leg ring, no number is visble on any of my shots but I thought that this shot below may let someone ID it,

If you know anything please get in touch with my

thanks always Lee Harrison.

Well this might not be exactly what you expect... No I've not been on holiday, I've been to Heysham, to try and photograph a Mediterranean Gull as they a seen frequently here, a place where I've never been before but will definitely be returning to in the near future.

I was very impress by the place and I managed to fine my desired species in the form of an adult in non-breeding plumage and a juvenile 2nd phase winter, both birds were very co-operative but for no other reason than the low light and ME probably been the more important one... the pics didn't come out as well as I'd liked but as this was my first attempt I thought I'd post them anyway. I hope that you like them...