Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) A Winter Visitor

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) A Winter Visitor



Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) A Winter Visitor
Trying to eat an eel

Lesser Black backed Gull Larus fuscus ROT 1749 Edit
Leaving it’s favorite perching site

Lesser Black backed Gull Larus fuscus D8C6916 Edit
Notice the dusky head and the yellow legs

Lesser Black backed Gull Larus fuscus D8C5280
Dark gray mantle and yellowlegs

Lesser Black backed Gull catching an Eel LBBG with Eel D7K 2388
The Gull caught this eel, however could not get through the skin and slime to eat it

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) is a winter visitor to the East Coast of North America. The birds that are found here probably come from the breeding population in Iceland. The Lesser Black-backed Gull breeds in the Atlantic coasts of Europe and migrates in the winter. From the British Isles self to West Africa. Every year, for at least the past 10 years, a Lesser Black-back Gull has been a visitor to Jenney Pond in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where it hangs out with the waterfowl and other gulls species. Lesser Black-backed Gull is recognizable from a Great Black-backed Gull, especially by its yellow legs as opposed to the pinkish legs of the Great Black-backed Gull. The Lesser Black-backed Gull mantle is a dark gray rather than jet black of the Great Black-backed Gull. I observed the Lesser Black-backed Gull catching an eel which was almost as long as the gull and its efforts trying to eat the eel. The eel was to big and and had too much mucus for the gull to eat it.

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Myer Bornstein

I photograph the natural beauty of Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island and other locations Country and elsewhere. I also publish a blog about the area and other interesting vistas and locations.

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Myer Bornstein

Myer Bornstein –Photo Bee 1 has been involved in photography for many years and studied photography at the New York Inst. of Photography. He is now retired and photographs the natural beauty of Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island and other locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Costa Rica. He also publishes a blog about his works natural history and includes, book and equipment reviews. You can view my blog at http://photobee1.blogspot.com/ Myer Bornstein has won 1st Place in the South Shore Massachusetts Daniel Webster Photo Contest, Best of Show in the Friends of the National Wildlife Refuges of Rhode Island 2011 Photo Contest, and was one of the twenty-four finalists in the 2011 Massachusetts Audubon Photo Contest. He received one of three Judges' Choice prizes in the "Share the View" International Nature Photography contest in 2011 plus had second picture as one of the featured 250 runner ups. He also placed another photograph in the 2012 contest. He was awarded first place in the “Chasing the Light” Juried competition, Flights of Fancy. He’s has also been published both on line and in Nature Magazines and in Books. Recently he had the honor of having the first "50" point photograph in the Pro-Am tournament conducted by The Images for Conservation Fund in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. He teaches photography classes and instructs about Lightroom 4. He also is a volunteer naturalist and photographer for Allen Pond Massachusetts Audubon Sanctuary located in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

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