Cormorant and Gulls

A few photographs from this morning (10th April): lots of gulls, seaducks and other seabirds between Midtsandan and Hommelvik. Plenty of food for seabirds now as the local herring population is spawning.

Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo (N=storskarv) - Midtsandan, Malvik 10.04.2012

Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides (N=grønlandsmåke) - Midtsandan, Malvik.

Iceland Gull (right). The colour of the eye (pale iris), bill pattern and with colour mean this is a 3rd calendar year bird (i.e. hatched in 2010). Midtsandan, Malvik.

Herring Gull Larus argentatus (N=gråmåke). 2nd calendar year - Midtsandan, Malvik.

Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus (N=hettemåke).Midtsandan, Malvik.

Iceland, Herring, Black-headed and Common Gull - Midtsandan, Malvik