11/07/23 First Juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls of 2023

An event I look forward to, high summer gulling. Ive seen a couple of Juv YLGs flying around in the past couple of days, but this afternoon tried the beach at Deal and had 3 different birds. 2 of which came in close the other floated around far out. Expect more to come but heres some images.

The darkest of the 3 below, with the first signs of Scapular moult just coming through .

There are a few Juv Herrings now flying around Dover and starting to ‘creche’ in the harbour, the pair of Lesser black Backed gulls on the cliff behind my house seem to still have very small chicks.