Search This Blog

Monday 5 January 2015

Glaucous & Iceland Gulls

A day at north Shields Fish Quay on Saturday in the company of many birders and Gulls , we had all come to see  Glaucous and Iceland Gulls  and they put on a good show especially the Iceland Gull  which gave cracking views , my interest was also in the  so called "Viking" gull a hybrid of Glaucous and Herring Gull which put in an appearance later in the day , initially it looked just like a Glaucous but darker . I had heard the term Viking gull before presume it has northern origins where perhaps they are more common I suppose it's  just a simple name rather than saying Glaucous X Herring Gull Hybrid 



 Iceland Gull

Glaucous Gull on the shed roof

 The "Viking"


 The Viking



 Iceland 2nd Winter
 Glaucous Gull
 Glaucous Gull

Glaucous X herring Gull
 Glaucous X herring Gull
Glaucous top left   and Glaucous X herring Gull lower right

No comments: