The local ports hold a lot of winter visitors and not only ducks..................
Some more photos from a few days ago near Oshamanbe.
It's always nice to see Glaucous Gulls, a common winter visitor which look brilliantly white compared to the resident Slatybacks at this time of year.
The ports provide lots of food for the gulls in winter...............
This is a Glaucous-winged Gull, another common winter visitor.
There is usually an overwintering flock of Dunlin in the Oshamanbe area but I could only find a small group of 5.
Quite a brute of a Gull. Managed to see one this January on a Warehouse roof in Thetford UK - along with 8 other species of Gull! All scavenging on nearby refuse....
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment Tony. 8 species of gull in one place is pretty impressive, although with all the recent splits it is becoming a bit easier maybe..........don't think I ever got 8 in the UK. 7 perhaps.............I got 9 here once I think.
DeleteIn Thetford with a top birding guide - and in addition to the 5 common UK species there were one each of Caspian, Iceland, Glaucous and Yellow-legged of various ages...all on one tin roof within a 2 hour period..
ReplyDeleteNot sure if I could even ID a Caspian Gull............
DeleteOne Dunlin is all you needed!
ReplyDeleteThere are usually about 100 of them though..........
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