Category: gulls
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More Juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls at Hastings Seafront, July 2023
After the influx of Yellow-legged Gull (YLG) on the 11th July there was a steady trickle of juveniles through the seafront over the rest of the month, with birds present on all four of my subsequent visits. My guess is that the birds on the 11th had taken advantage of the southerly airflow to make…
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Yellow-legged Gull influx at Hastings Seafront, 11th July 2023
In July we see the beginning of the UK’s annual influx of juvenile Yellow-legged Gull (YLG), as birds dispersing from breeding grounds in southern Europe arrive on our shores. I was curious to see how this would play out in Hastings given their annual presence in the Eastbourne area to the west. On the morning…