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Welcome to the GRC Recorders pages. This blog provides details on all the relevant news of Glamorgan’s scarcer birds, plus all BBRC & WRP decisions that affect us locally. It will also be used to document the status and occurrence of these scarcer species and we welcome contributions from anyone with photographs, artwork or documentation of rarities past, present and future. The GRC also welcomes all seawatching news from around Glamorgan and news of passage migrants in spring & autumn, uncommon birds in our area and unusual behaviour.


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Sunday 20 March 2011

Bonaparte's Gull from Prospect Place

The Bonaparte's Gull was showing well from Prospect Place today. Initially flying distantly mid-bay but, the seemingly hundreds of yachts, speed boats and military craft in the bay forcing lots of the gulls to rest closer to the embankment.
Having not seen this species for a long time, and never before in the UK, I was surprised to find how similar in action it's flight behaviour is with Black-headed Gull and not like Little Gull, also seen today but OOC.
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2 comments:

Paul Parsons said...

I see you had a good day Mark, no pics of the LT duck?

20 March 2011 at 22:56
Mark Hipkin said...

Unfortunately not. I forgot to pack my digiscoping bracket attachment. I became aware of this at Prospect Place. You may have heard distant cries on the wind!!

20 March 2011 at 23:24

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