Juvenile Meds

A very quick check as the tide was turning saw most of the Med Gulls actively feeding and it was a good opportunity to count the number of Juvs.  There were at least nine but counting the older birds was very difficult and not undertaken

Other stuff
Shag - wooden jetty
Whimbrel - Red Nab
Little Gull - outfalls

Med Gull sighting
News through on LCG (not LCC as published earlier).  This probably moulted at Heysham during the intervening year but the birds are very hard to document as they have better food supplies than a loaf of bread!
LCG/3693897    pullus    24/06/2010  De Kreupel Island, Ijsselmeer, Noord-Holland, NL 52,48N 5,14E                 
                             19/08/2010  Knott, End-on-Sea,Lancashire, GB  53,35N 2,59W  Batty, Chris

                             20/08/2010  Cocker's Dyke, Pilling Lane, Lancashire, GB  53,35N 2,57W  Batty, Chris

                             20/02/2011  Malaga harbour, Malaga, SPAIN  36,43N 4,25W  Garcia, Rafa
                             11/08/2013  Heysham Harbour, Lancashire, GB  54,02N 2,55W  Prestwood, Mark
                             09/01/2015  Olhao salinas, Algarve, PORTUGAL  37,02N 7,48W  Waasdorp, Stef
                             19/01/2016  Santa Cruz, La Coruña, SPAIN  43,21N 8,2W  López Porto, Antonio
                             18/01/2017  Playa San Lorenzo, Gijón, Asturias, SPAIN  43,32N 5,39W  Diaz Pallares, Ivan
                             29/12/2017  Playa de El Rinconin, Gijón, Asturias, SPAIN  43,32N 5,38W  Fernandez Gonzalez, César
                             21/01/2018  Playa San Lorenzo, Gijón, Asturias, SPAIN  43,32N 5,39W  Fernandez Gonzalez, César
                             30/01/2018  Playa San Lorenzo, Gijón, Asturias, SPAIN  43,32N 5,39W  Fernandez Gonzalez, César
                             31/01/2018  Playa San Lorenzo, Gijón, Asturias, SPAIN  43,32N 5,39W  Fernandez Gonzalez, César
                             02/02/2018  Playa San Lorenzo, Gijón, Asturias, SPAIN  43,32N 5,39W  Diaz Pallares, Ivan
                             03/02/2018  Playa de El Rinconin, Gijón, Asturias, SPAIN  43,32N 5,38W  Fernandez Gonzalez, César
                             08/02/2018  Playa de El Rinconin, Gijón, Asturias, SPAIN  43,32N 5,38W  Fernandez Gonzalez, César
                             09/02/2018  Playa de El Rinconin, Gijón, Asturias, SPAIN  43,32N 5,38W  Diaz Pallares, Ivan
                             31/07/2018  Heysham,outfalls Lancashire, GB  54,03N 2,54W