5 Jul 2009

A Lesson Learnt!!!!! in Misidentification

On Birdguides yesterday there was a report of a Ist year Sabine's gull at Blanket Nook. I thought I would go to Blanket Nook on the way from Altnagelvin hospital to my parents home in Donegal. As I was visiting my mother at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry, who had had surgery to remove bowel cancer a few days before.

When I got there there was one other birder, who I hadnt come across before and he asked me if I wanted to look at the Sabine's Gull. I have only seen an adult before so wasnt sure about the id and took the birder's advice and then I took a few photos.



I then sent them off to a couple of sites. I then decided to look up Sabine's Gull in "Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America" by Klaus Malling Olsen and realised that the photos I had sent were not a Sabine's Gull :-(

Joe Doolan of Irishbirding.comthen put me right.It was a juvenile Black Headed Gull. Thank you Joe.

I then went out to Killard NR and photographed this Ringed Plover (I hope)


There was also this Tiger Moth

3 comments:

widi said...

Flying bird photo is cool. Not blur. Sharp.

Dan Bandacu said...

Hi, my name is Dan, I'm 54 year old and I'm living in Tulcea, near Danube Delta. Could you tell me your name ?

http://dandindeltadunarii.blogspot.com

Dan Bandacu said...

Hi, I like your blog!

Dan

http://dandindeltadunarii.blogspot.com