Friday 28th October p.m.
A trip this afternoon up to Redcar Tarn where it was cloudy with a temperature of 12°C but feeling much colder with a strong wind blowing.We started off over the road seeing c50
Lapwings and in a field further back c100
Canadas with five
Greylags.We had a walk round the Tarn seeing one
Goosander on the island and just four
Tufteds, twelve
Muscovys along with the usual
Mallards,Coots and
Moorhens.
Then we started to have a look through the c100 Gulls the majority of which were
Black-headed with ten
Commons, five
LBBs and one
Herring Gull.These were at different ages which means their feathers are different as are their bills so we attempt to show some of the differences in the pictures below.We still find this a difficult process particularly with the larger Gulls which can have sub species thrown in just to add to the confusion, so if we have some wrong please feel free to put us right.
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| Herring Gull |
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| Goosander |
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| Lapwing |
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| Muscovy Ducks |
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| Adult BH Gull |
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| BH Gull 1st Winter |
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| BH Gulls 1st Winter & Adult |
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| Odd ball White BH Gull |
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| Adult Common Gull |
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| 1st Winter Common Gull |
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| BH Gull with Common Gull behind, 1st Winter birds |
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| Juvenile LBB Gull |
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| 2nd WinterLBB Gull |
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| 3rd Winter LBB Gull |
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| Darker than normal head |
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| Herring Gull |
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| Redcar Tarn 28/10/2016 |
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