Strong south-westerly winds wasn't ideal for passerine migration. A build up of gulls during the morning high tide produced a rather smart juvenile Caspian Gull on the South End, this represent the first record for the Island and only the second for Gwynedd after a 1st Summer in Bangor during early June. The bird was colour ringed and confirmed to be ringed in the Netherlands on 9/5/24 some 420 miles to the East. Alongside this was a German ringed juvenile Mediterranean Gull on Solfach, ringed some 730 miles away, the bird was last seen in Germany on 2/7/24 and was seen in Suffolk on 26/7/24!
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Caspian Gull © Ed Betteridge |
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Caspian Gull © Ed Betteridge |
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Mediterranean Gull © Ed Betteridge |
Elsewhere, a juvenile
Marsh Harrier circled the Island mid-afternoon with wader's totalling three
Purple Sandpipers, 48
Turnstones, 32
Curlews, six
Redshanks, five
Whimbrels, a
Dunlin and a
Ringed Plover with nine
Common Scoters along the West Coast. The day ended with another look through the Gull flocks during the evening high tide didn't produce the Caspian Gull however, the first
Arctic Tern of the year was on Henllywn.
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Arctic Tern © Ed Betteridge |
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Purple Sandpiper © Ed Betteridge |
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