Sunday 25 November 2012

25th November 2012 Cuckmere W5 Showers

Bar-headed Goose 1
Red-breasted Merganser 1 oxbows
Yellow-legged Gull 3





Third-winter Yellow-legged Gull in the Cuckmere
Note the white mirror and white tip to p10 but no mirror on p9 that can be distinctive on this species. Also its pale eye and pale legs. Its pear-shaped white head and small, abeit pale, eye could prove a trap for the unwary. An additional sign of its immaturity was the remnants of a broad dark tail band just visible in the first image above.
 
Stormy seas crashing over Newhaven West Pier