Glaucous Gull
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30 Mar 2008 |
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richard fairbank
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| Sighting Description |
The 1st year GLAUCOUS GULL was near the sailing club just to W of Shoreham Harbour entrance this morning. A Great Skua and a drake Velvet Scoter W in an hour but little else moving. On Saturday morning the Glaucous Gull flew S over the harbour landing some distance off shore, 4 Purple Sandpipers were on the inner arm, a blue ringed 1w Greater Black-backed Gull on the beach nearby and a later between the power station and gravel piles an oiled 1w gull presumed to be Glaucous x Herring hybrid (body & bare parts as Glaucous, flight feathers as washed out Herring). |
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