Summer gulling

With no big gulls at Collingham at the moment, I've been getting my gull fix at Cotham Landfill and Kilvington Lakes. A couple of visits to the latter this week have produced decent numbers of Yellow-legged Gulls - 16 on Wednesday, and at least 30 today. Most are adults or near adults, but there have been a couple of 2cy and juv birds around - with two juvs together today (and a few juv LBBGs for comparison). A juv Common Gull was the only other gull of note.

The images below show the 2 juv YLGs from today - the second and third birds from the left in the first shot (with LBBGs), and shots of both birds showing upper wing, and nice tail/rump pattern. I appreciate they're not the best photos in the world...