…..I think it is still in Glamorgan!

Lol Middleton and myself went over to Flat Holm for a day earlier in the week to photograph some young gulls and try and get some first hand experience at Id’ing very young LBB’s and HG’s. I have posted a series of shots at

http://andyburnsphotography.zenfolio.com/younggulls/h2fd9dec8#h2fd9dec8

which look from eggs, to fullfy balls, to scraggy chicks, to our well loved juvenilles (or not). There are 13 shots in all which show quite a variation in colours and patterns – even the LBB’s eggs vary in colour.

The records seem to show nearly 10:1 LBBs to HG, but it seemed like there were more HGs than that. The HGs were all around the shore/cliffs(?) whereas the LBBs also were nesting in the fields and bushes.

In addition to the LBBs and HGs, there way one GBB (yes, just one!), double figures of oyster catchers, maybe a handful of pairs of shelducks, the odd wood pigeon and a single rock pipit. Not the place to go with all the gulls.

Well worth the effort to get the baby gull shots.