Caspian See?


Am I one of the gull people? No, not really. I do look at them. Sometimes even actively seek them out. But to truly belong to that specialist group of birders you need to study them. And then study them again. Over. And over. And over. It isn't so much a passion, or an obsession, but more a disease. Gullitis? Larusgytis? There isn't really a name for it yet.

Just to prove that I do dip my toe into this rarified world I present a few bridge camera images from Dungeness this autumn. The top three pictures are of a first-winter Caspian Gull and the bottom of an adult Caspian Gull, all on the beach. Even I can 'do' these individuals, but there are other birds that even the aficionados will screw their faces up at and proclaim that "there might be a bit of Herring Gull" in them.

If you want professional quality images of gulls (especially Caspian) the net is swamped with them, but I can recommend Dungeness Bird Observatory, Ploddingbirder, Richard Smith and Birding the day away. All excellent sites, compiled by bonkers gull obsessives.

Comments

Nick Crouch here in Notts is an excellent guller, he's always scanning Cotham rubbish tip for Icelands and Glaucouses
Steve Gale said…
They walk among us Simon!

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