Showing posts with label chick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chick. Show all posts

Monday, June 25, 2018

Gulls on solar energy (Update on the roof nesters)

























Today a visit to the top floor revealed that both Black-headed Gulls Chroicocephalus ridibundus and Common terns Sterna hirundo have large young. A small number of Black-headed gull chicks has fledged by now (I ran into one in the street below a couple of days ago). The solar panels seem to provide a useful shelter to the chicks. The Herring gull pair from the previous post (no solar panels present) lost all its chicks shortly after hatching.

Monday, June 5, 2017

Little ringed plover chicky



Charadrius dubius, 12.8 gram. Ringed today @ VRS Hessenpoort, Zwolle.




Little ringed breeding habitat.