Baltic gull in flight

[amir ben dov]

Larus fuscus fuscus - a photo taken in ashdod, Israel

[Dave Blinder]

Nice eye contact, and love the BG. Main problem here is you need more separation of the wing from the head, looks like the bird was a little bit past you also.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the look-back pose and angle and wish the bird were flying toward you. Generally speaking it looks better if the wings are either up or down. Keep them coming!

[Richard Stern]

Can you tell us about the leg band?

Richard

[amir ben dov]

Hi Richard

ofcourse, be glad to give information

the Baltic Gull J20E was ringed in Norway on 22.06 2007 as an adult 4th calander year
this is part of a major gulls ringing in europe mainly Norway and Finland but also in some other EU countries
the gull was seen in israel first time on 20-29.03 2009 (spring migration) then on 17.06 2009 back in norway
and again on 31.10 2009 in Israel

the best location to see ringed gulls in Israel is Ashdod
you are welcome to look at the presentation i prepared for the Israeli birders to look at
(as gulls identification is so hard sometimes)

http://www.slideshare.net/warbler/large-gulls-of-israel-id (http://www.slideshare.net/warbler/large-gulls-of-israel-id)

by the way - there are some other presentations in that site and you are welcome to look at
http://www.slideshare.net/warbler (http://www.slideshare.net/warbler)