Birds
Tree/Meadow Pipit
The owner of the excellent Manchester Birding website has very kindly allowed me to use a link to an article he wrote: Tree Pipit vs. Meadow Pipit
Gulls
Immature Caspian & Yellow-legged: Rudy's Gull Index
Good ID articles about all the main gull species: Gulls in the West Midlands
Good ID articles about all the main gull species: Birder's Playground
Yellow-legged Gulls: More than Just a Mantle
- Upper Wardington: 23rd Aug 2015
Mediterranean Gull, adult 2 Yellow-legged Gulls With c.500 Lesser Black-backed Gulls in ploughed field off the A361 (per Mike Pollard)...
- Farmoor - Sunday Roost
4.50-6.30pm. Light not good for distinguishing gulls (sharp light plus some initial air shimmer over water). Very noticeable increase in large gull numbers, since last few visits and large gulls still arriving at 6.25. Med Gull 1 adult seen when it flew...
- Farmoor - 15th August
Juvenile Yellow-legged Gull Still good numbers of Yellow-legged Gulls in the roost with 50+ this evening. Also a few hanging around during the daytime feeding on dead fish. 2 juvenile Mediterranean Gulls in the roost. Single Greenshank, Green Sandpiper...
- Port Meadow: Not A Caspian Gull!
Thought I had a Caspian gull on the Meadow this even. Turns out it's not actually a Caspian but a tricky yellow-legged gull with rather pinkish legs, perhaps from the south-western part of the yellow-legged range. Fortunately Ian Lewington has put...
- Port Meadow 2nd January
Great gull roost this evening of several thousand birds 2+ yellow-legged gulls 1 ad. Caspian gull 2m pintail The adult Caspian gull One of the yellow-legged gulls ...
Birds
Identification Articles
Tree/Meadow Pipit
The owner of the excellent Manchester Birding website has very kindly allowed me to use a link to an article he wrote: Tree Pipit vs. Meadow Pipit
Gulls
Immature Caspian & Yellow-legged: Rudy's Gull Index
Good ID articles about all the main gull species: Gulls in the West Midlands
Good ID articles about all the main gull species: Birder's Playground
Yellow-legged Gulls: More than Just a Mantle
- Upper Wardington: 23rd Aug 2015
Mediterranean Gull, adult 2 Yellow-legged Gulls With c.500 Lesser Black-backed Gulls in ploughed field off the A361 (per Mike Pollard)...
- Farmoor - Sunday Roost
4.50-6.30pm. Light not good for distinguishing gulls (sharp light plus some initial air shimmer over water). Very noticeable increase in large gull numbers, since last few visits and large gulls still arriving at 6.25. Med Gull 1 adult seen when it flew...
- Farmoor - 15th August
Juvenile Yellow-legged Gull Still good numbers of Yellow-legged Gulls in the roost with 50+ this evening. Also a few hanging around during the daytime feeding on dead fish. 2 juvenile Mediterranean Gulls in the roost. Single Greenshank, Green Sandpiper...
- Port Meadow: Not A Caspian Gull!
Thought I had a Caspian gull on the Meadow this even. Turns out it's not actually a Caspian but a tricky yellow-legged gull with rather pinkish legs, perhaps from the south-western part of the yellow-legged range. Fortunately Ian Lewington has put...
- Port Meadow 2nd January
Great gull roost this evening of several thousand birds 2+ yellow-legged gulls 1 ad. Caspian gull 2m pintail The adult Caspian gull One of the yellow-legged gulls ...