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Slender billed gull

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Posted by Mike Smith on May 6, 2009 at 1:56 AM
Slender billed gull
Bit of a record shot but does show of this delicate little gull's "giz" reasonaby well (ie long neck, slender build)and its delicate pink breeding plumage. The El Pinet reserve is a series of saltpan lagoons one of which is surrounded by a bank of vegetation and tended to stay mirror like, unfortunately the avocet and SBG didn't frequent that lagoon but preferred the more open lagoons that were always had choppy water. Another bird that would get the British twitchers slavoring at the mouth having a fairly restricted distribution in the Med.

Usual techs, Oly E-3, 300mm plus 1.4tc and tripod
Posted by Dawn Monrose on May 6, 2009 at 5:17 AM
What a strange looking bird! Interesting info too. Pretty good for a record shot! Looks a tiny bit flat on my screen - could be my uncalibrated screen though. Nicely caught mid call too.
Posted by Jeroen Stel on May 6, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Never seen one of these and a nice species.
Well done getting this!

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel
Posted by Brett Lewis on May 6, 2009 at 8:48 AM
Reminds me of that Gull in the Watership down film... Quite an attitude.. :biggrin: A little tweak in the levels would help bring this up a little.

Kind regards

Brett :toast:
Posted by Mike Smith on May 6, 2009 at 9:09 AM
Thanks chaps

I've just reprofiled my laptop screen and seem to have overdone the gamma brightness, this looks much darker on my screen at work
Posted by Guy Rogers on May 6, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Hello Mike.

Never seen one of these so thanks for posting it.

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:
Posted by Justin on May 6, 2009 at 4:14 PM
A new one for me too. Nice one :cool:
Posted by Andy Shepherd on May 6, 2009 at 7:03 PM


Nice shot Mike and a new species for me as well.

Andy...