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| 20260124 Iceland Gull 1st winter. 1680mm using 1.4x as way out beyond the surf. Wings project well beyond tail. |
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| 20260124 Iceland Gull Averagely proportioned medium-large Gull with a round head, weak bill and plain looks... apart from the white primaries. |
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| 20260124 Iceland Gull Approaches the size of Herring Gull. |
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| 20260124 Iceland Gull Centre Weighted exposure with Auto ISO...! White wings and black wave exposed equally well!!? |
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| 20260124 Iceland Gull |
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| 20260124 Iceland Gull Clear white remiges in elegantly shaped wing. Pale barring on inner webs of rectrices. |
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| 20260124 Iceland Gull |
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| 20260124 Sea Palling Sea defences. 14-42mm at 28mm effective, only just wide enough. Concrete wall only just wide enough, a bottleneck at HT. |
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| 20260124 Purple Sandpiper |
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| 20260124 Sanderling At 1120mm with 1.4x telecon pulled back to within the lenses normal range... The telecon maintains quality in good light for portraits. |
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| 20260124 Sanderling |
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| 20260124 Purple Sandpiper Feeding with Sanderling on the tide line but retreating to loaf on the rocks when flushed... |
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| 20260124 Sea Palling Reefs of rocks create an excellent Gull lagoon. |
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| 20140125 Grey Heron Birding the Teign Estuary, Newton Abbot. Old photo of the week, E-M1 & Sigma 50-500mm effective 1000mm. Better Noise Reduction of todays apps used. In 14 years has camera tech moved on that much....?? cf OM1 & OMSystem 150-600mm effective 1200mm... |
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| 20260124 Iceland Gull Juvenile plumage retained throughout winter. No pale grey feathering in mantle. |
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| 20260124 Iceland Gull |
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| 20260128 Caspian Gull 1st winter in classic pose, but how many were on the beach this early morn...? |
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| 20260128 Sea Palling Misty and silvery light all day. |
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| 20260128 Razor Shell Elongate bivalve still hanging onto shell and snapped up by Herring Gull. Due to heavy seas Razors shell have been washed up on mass onto Palling's Beach. Bivalve's floating in the surf and easy pickings for Gulls. |
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| 20260128 Iceland Gull |
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| 20260128 Iceland Gull |
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| 20260124 Purple Sandpiper |
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| 20260128 Gull sp....? Whilst grilling Caspian Gulls another observer drew our attention to this bird... as a possible 2nd winter Yellow-legged. Unfortunately a small female type bird, so not helpful in Yellow-legged assessment. Whiteish head, small black eye mask and longish and spikey primary projection though... |
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| 20260128 Gull sp? The mantle and scapular grey tone is as pale as the BHGs and within the range of argenteus. The bill is solid and shapely but not massive... |
