Very nice Sunday!

With Strahil Peev from Bulgaria with us, I was under pressure to do any kind of catch. I took first clean shot and it end up with 93 birds including nice number of big gulls:)

We reset for another and in 2 hours time gulls landed again with bigger numbers of big gulls:) So second catch was 51 gulls.

In the end, a very nice day with 144 gulls color ringed including 4 Caspians, 1 Common, 1 HG(?),40 YLGs and 99 BHGs.

And here are some of them:

26AH adult Caspian

 58EH adult Caspian

84AH adult Caspian

 87AH adult Caspian

85AH adult YLG

 73EH can this be 1w HG

It seems that we'll go again this weekend :)

Thanx Strahil for non-gulls-in-the-hand photos :)

Strahil with one of his first in-hand YLG

Valentine's Day at Jakuševec

Strahil Peev from Bulgaria came to join us on Jakuševec for gull catching on Sunday. We spent a Saturday watching gulls and reading rings:) Very nice day with 7 gull species and allmost 100 rings read.

1w arg

1w LBBG

Huge arg, LBBG and YLG

same arg from upper photo

3w arg

same bird as above

LBBG 

GBBG 

GBBG

Strahil watching gulls

Caspian

Common

LBBG

LBBG

LBBG

YLG

BHG

Final-fucking-ly

It should be a great day! Kruno and I came first to the tip an it was crowded with gull. It was -10C so they should come on bread very fast. After the workers were gone we started setting the net. In the mean time all of 7 of us came. The net was set just around 9 and I pour myself coffee and tought that I wouldn't have time to finish it.. But gulls just didn't want to play..They were around catching area..in fact everywhere except in the catching area..At 9 45 they all left..I was freaking out..
And then 10 20 they started to land in the catching area..all eating our bread :) I took first possible shoot around 10 21:) it was nice catch 146 BHG and 1 common gull:)

 As the team was small and only two of us were ringing I decided not to take second catch.. In the end it was great idea because it started to snow just after 12 and at that time everything except ringing stuff was packed in the car:)

BHG with genei looking bill

a bit of advanced moult in primary coverts?

First canus of the season

Hope the forcast for next week(end) is correct because it seems that we'll have decent weather again next week:)

This is what we left:)