Still using Friday's photos. There were lots of kittiwakes nesting on the cliffs. What a noisy bunch! However, following further investigation, I find this is a common seagull, not a kittiwake as I'd first thought. Apologies for misleading!
His nibs is off to fish for mackerel again today, but I declined the offer to accompany him this time. I have other fun things to get done, like cleaning and hoovering and dusting ...
Hubby and I have a bit of a running joke. He loves birds and gets his binos out regularly to identify things. I found a meme that claimed to identify bird varieties and it had lots of pictures on. Against each one was written "bird." That's about right for me LOL. So this is a kittiwake? I would have said seagull! He's gorgeous and I like that he has a mouth full of supper.
I thought seagull as soon as I saw it, I did some research and interestingly found that kittiwakes are the only cliff nesting gull species. According to google they have either red legs or black legs so yours is even more interesting.
@casablanca@kjarn You are both absolutely right! I have amended my caption and text! I was fooled into thinking that this was a kittiwake because there were so many nesting kittiwakes at this spot. I am going to post a kittiwake image (with black legs, Kathy) today. Apologies for misleading!
@busylady Too right! I can get stuck in, without bothering about how much noise I make with the hoover, nor having to listen to comments like 'are you sure that needs doing ... looks all right to me ...'!!! Ha ha, men!
July 28th, 2022
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