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On the high tide,Mostly Ringed plover and some Dunlin
Hoylake Shore
Dee Estuary North Wirral - Dee Estuary Birds
www.deeestuary.co.uk/nwirral.htm
The north Wirral shore - vast sand banks, promenades, embankments and sand ... The shore at Hoylake at the end of King's Gap road is a high tide roost for ...
High tide Hoylake Shore.
Last post in present series
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Common Tern - Sterna Hirundo
Juvenile
It is strongly migratory, wintering in coastal tropical and subtropical regions. Breeding adults have light grey upperparts, white to very light grey underparts, a black cap, orange-red legs, and a narrow pointed bill. Depending on the subspecies, the bill may be mostly red with a black tip or all black. There are a number of similar species, including the partly sympatric Arctic tern, which can be separated on plumage details, leg and bill colour, or vocalisations.
Breeding in a wider range of habitats than any of its relatives, the common tern nests on any flat, poorly vegetated surface close to water, including beaches and islands, and it readily adapts to artificial substrates such as floating rafts. The nest may be a bare scrape in sand or gravel, but it is often lined or edged with whatever debris is available. Up to three eggs may be laid, their dull colours and blotchy patterns providing camouflage on the open beach.
Population:
UK breeding:
12,000 pairs
A stormy sunset over the coastline of Portknockie on the Moray Firth in Scotland. A four image, long exposure, panorama.
A seagull perched on the remnants of a turn of the century, dock pylon.
Silhouetted against the warm sky, as the sun slipped below the horizon.
Gulls or seagulls are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. They are most closely related to the terns and only distantly related to auks, skimmers, and more distantly to the waders. Until the 21st century, most gulls were placed in the genus Larus, but this arrangement is now considered polyphyletic, leading to the resurrection of several genera. An older name for gulls is mews, cognate with German Möwe, Danish måge, Dutch meeuw, and French mouette; this term can still be found in certain regional dialects.
Wikipedia
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While cruising through the Moraleda Channel in southern Chile, we came across this large flock of cinnamon colored seabirds in a chaotic scene of taking off, landing or floating on the water.
Todays exercise walk took me back to the coast, I spent time watching the seabirds dive into the water.
After a day on the ocean, fishing for whatever they were fishing for, it's good to kick back with a cold beer.
Pillar Point Harbor, just north of Half Moon Bay, California.
Royal Albatross, Harington Point east of Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand. Not sure if it's flying over the South Pacific or the Southern Ocean at that point.
Port Quin
Unlike some other evenings there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, though I do think a few clouds enhance a sunset picture. I didn’t notice the silhouette of the seabird until I got the picture off the SD card. The conditions were perfect this evening to see the brief green flash as the sun sank below the horizon, almost impossible to catch on camera, well it was for me anyway !
This is the final photo in this series from Port Quin and the North Cornwall coast.
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How many pictures can you take of Seagulls. After a while they all start to look the same, but what's wrong with one more try?