Herring Gull

Herring Gull 25.10.2012, Bjørvika, Oslo

Edit: Later ringed at Aker Brygge 26.01.2013

More michalike!

Well, took some really distant photos in Bjørvika yesterday. This bird showed up in a few of them last night. Looks kind of like a mich, but....

...it is really long distance. White window in P10 only, thin black marking on P5, a bit long tongue on P7...

Darklooking European Herring Gull

Old photos from 19. March 2011. Rådhuskaia, Oslo.

Common Gulls

Another failed search for Med Gull today. Some Common Gulls:

Dark 1cy moulting into first-winter

Appeared long-winged

Lesser Black-backed Gull, Oslo - Finland - Oslo

24. July I managed to successfully read a Norwegian metalring on a LBBG at Langvannet. Got back the recoveries last week, and read through the list. The gull was ringed in 2008 on Alv in Oslo, and only had one recovery before I read it on Langvannet. Only thing, this was in Finland! 27. May last year the intermedius gull was seen on a dump in Finland. Most likely caught in a canon-nett, but it could have been read in field. Anyhow, last year this gull was 3cy, meaning that it had gone one summer (as 2cy) together with the other 2cy LBBG  in south Europe or Africa (or some other place). Than as 3cy it flew north and ended up in Finland. After this it is likely that it flew south to Africa or south Europe (or some other place), before flying north to Oslo and ending up on Langvannet with the Lesser Black-backed here (as a 4cy) (I almost manage to read it in April, but was missing a few digits). In April I wasn't looking that closely on the LBBG, so I don't know if any of them where fuscus than. There will be a next year!

Together with all the dark and bright looking LBBG on Langvannet in end of the metalring-bird-period this is a really interesting recovery. It means that fuscus gulls from Finland can end up in Oslo. Yet we don't have any proves that this have ever happened (at least not as I know of), but it have to be possible.

Herring Gull

The 23. I walked through Middelalderparken early morning to watch gulls and geeses (mainly gulls). Found some gulls; one that looks similar to the one in the last post, but only very bad photos from the 23.). Another was a Herring, but...

A lot of moult going on in scapulars. 

Tail-pattern!

Doesn't look good for this one...

1cy Lesser Black-backed Gull

A long time since last time I saw a LBBG with this amount of white on its belly. Made me think about cach for quite a long time actually... Of course there are not many thinks fitting with cach today, but it was a different story yesterday ;)

Lesser Black-backed Gull, Bispevika/Middelalderparken 25.08 

Tailpattern fits good with Caspian, but even better with LBBG
This bird actually shows a window in primaries, not very normal
for a LBBG, but some individuals have it.