Ring-Billed Gull - Blast from the past. Found a load of old shots. So updated this post. #IrishRareBirds #birds #birding #GullsWP #Gulls #seabirds #birdwatching
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Caspian Gull
Caspian Gull
Caspian Gull
Caspian Gull
Caspian Gull. My 2nd of the year & #selffound. Took a bit of time, but managed to pull this one out at Turku Dump. 😍😎 Beautiful spring weather made for good, if a bit distant viewing. #birds #birding #gulls #gullswp #gulls #birdwatching #finland
Gull...sp...thing. Never quite sure what to do with these things when I encounter them here in #Finland Nice to pick out nonetheless. 🙂 #birds #birding #gulls #gullsWP #birdwatching #seabirds
Caspian Gull
Caspian Gull. There's just something so obvious about them. Delighted to find an early bird like this. 😍😎 #birds #birding #gulls #gullswp #birdID #finland #birdwatching #seabirds
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Blog Post - Finding an early Caspian Gull and other winter #birding
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Caspian Gull. Really enjoyable day of spring migrants, rounded off with finding my first Casp of the year & the 2nd record for Siuntio county. Not one I was expecting in mid March & probably my earliest find ever.😍😎 Ice, ice baby. #birds #birding #birdwatching #gullswp #BirdID #gulls
Hybrid Great Black Backed Gull x Glaucous Gull
Hybrid Great Black Backed Gull x Glaucous Gull
Hybrid Great Black Backed Gull x Glaucous Gull
Hybrid Great Black Backed Gull x Glaucous Gull
Hybrid Great Black Backed Gull x Glaucous Gull. Flashback to an individual from Ballycotton, Cork. 2013. The only individual from this mix I have ever seen. What a stunning looking beast! 😍 #birds #birding #gullsWP #birdhybrids #seabirds #gulls #birdwatching #irishrarebirds
Blast From The Past Finds - Bonaparte's Gull. Bony's are definitely on the increase, but still a great bird for your finds list. Always a species I've enjoyed finding
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Blast From The Past Finds - Ring-Billed Gull. A lament blog post on the decline of these beauties. Will we ever see them become routine again? #birds #irishrarebirds #GullsWP #birding #gulls #birdwatching #seabirds
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American Herring Gull
American Herring Gull
American Herring Gull
American Herring Gull
On this date, the other members of Clan Foley found an American Herring Gull in Co. Mayo. Still plenty of time to dig out top birds like this. #irishrarebirds #birds #birding #birdwatching #gullsWP
Ross's Gull
Ross's Gull
On this date I bagged Ross's Gull as a much desired #Dublin tick! 😍 Now THAT is an Old School rare! #irishrarebirds #birds #birding #gullsWP
American Herring Gull
American Herring Gull
Ring-Billed Gull
Ring-Billed Gull
On this date, I found American Herring Gull at Baltimore, Cork (a smokey beauty) with back up of 2 1st winter Ring-Billed Gulls & 1 2nd Winter Ring-Billed Gull, Bantry, now gone very rare. (In the days when you could do that with RBGs 😢). #birds #birding #birdwatching #GullsWP #IrishRareBirds
On this date I found a Laughing Gull at Ballycotton, Cork. 😍 It would become the longest staying Laughing Gull on record. What a beauty! #irishrarebirds #birds #birding #gullswp #seabirds youtu.be/-fbjRKNkScU?...
On this date, members of Clan Foley found Azorean Gull in Wexford Harbour. They're impressive beasts when they look this good. #birds #irishrarebirds #gullsWP #birding
Bonaparte's Gull. On this date, my 3rd #selffound bird in #cork. Amazing how regular these have become vs. how rare Ring-Billed Gull has become.
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Christmas #birding in Ireland was pretty successful and an enjoyable catch up with family and friends. #birds #irishrarebirds #seabirds #gullswp #wildfowl
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I think this Caspian Gull was my favorite image of 2025. It was simply joyous to sit on a nice beach in #Latvia as this absolute beauty gave itself up to the sound track of gently lapping waves. 😍 #birds #gullswp #birding #gulls #birdwatching
2025 was a great year for #birding. Saw lots of good #birds across 4 countries. A great year for finding Caspian #GullsWP and a visit home to find #irishrarebirds. #birdwatching. Here's to a fantastic 2026!
Laughing Gull & Ring-Billed Gulls. In the memories today was seeing my self found Laughing Gull at Ballycotton in it's 2nd winter plumage & finding multiple Ring-Billed Gulls back when you could do that. 😍 #IrishRareBirds #GullsWP #birds #seabirds #birding #birdwatching
Please could I have help aging this gull from 27/09/2025? Afraid I don't have better photos. #GullsWP #ukbirding
1CY Caspian Gull, Dover Harbour this afternoon. only the 4th Cspian Gull I've seen this season, a nicely plumaged bird, presumably female. #gullswp #kentbirding
A lesser black-backed gull soars against a pale blue sky, pictured from the side. It has a white body and a dark grey back.
Lesser black-backed Gull / Heringsmöwe (Helgoland, Germany) #gulls #gullswp #birds #birding #helgoland
Two gulls perched on rocks near rippling water. One is a large Great black-backed gull, with black mantle, huge bill and a fierce look. the other is a young brownish herring gull looking small next to its neighbour. The herring gull is sleeping.
Great Black-backed Gull and Herring Gull / Mantelmöwe und Silbermöwe (Cuxhaven, Germany)
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My first summer/autumn monster from the coast was terrorising the other large Gulls this evening. GBBG #gullswp
Bits & bobs of local Gull action this week. Couple of Caspos 2cy & 3cy (thanks Jamie for the 👍🏻 on this one). First views of Juvs LBBGs that have been raised on an industrial rooftop next door. But, the #gulloftheweek goes to a brutish Yellow Legged Gull on my local landfill #ukbirding #gullswp
@jamiepartridge.bsky.social any thoughts on this local Gull? It was giving me Casp so much through the scope. Flight shots all blown out. Legs appear pale to light pink in video (I felt they were warmer in real time). Appreciate hard to comment from stills but interest in your thoughts. 👍🏻👍🏻 #gullswp
