Wednesday 22 November 2017

Here is a 1W Glaucous Gull taken by me today in Zimno (south-eastern Poland at the border with Ukraine!).
GG detected by Robert Cymbała in Kornie (05/11/2017) near the border crossing with Ukraine. Bird still present in the area, feeds on fishponds and eating dead carps.


Thursday 16 November 2017

Heuglin's Gull, 2cy. Puławy, 04/11/2017.
A massive bird, the size of a Caspian Gull.


Wednesday 8 November 2017

Wednesday 18 October 2017

Some pictures from the autumn sketchbook (paper 100gms). 
Preliminary project for larger picture with the Siberian Accentor.



Friday 22 September 2017

I created an illustration and design of the cover for the book "Ptaki Łęcznej".
Logo prepared for the National Ornithological Conference in Lublin.
Aquatic Warbler.

Tuesday 16 February 2016

Presumed hybrid Lesser Black-backed Gull x European Herring Gull

While checking gulls on my local rubbish tip yesterday, I found this presumed hybrid Lesser Black-backed Gull x European Herring Gull.




 There was a YLG too, from the breeding colony on the Vistula River.

Sunday 27 April 2014

Two adult females Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans (both 9cy), trapped at nests during incubation on the Wytyckie Lake, end of April 2014. These birds has been ringed as a chicks in the Kaniv, Dniepr River, Cherkassy district of Ukraine (610 km away), in May 2006. I added the plastic rings. Iris are relatively pale.
T 002059 + 3P23 


 T 002999 + 3P44

Lesser Black-backed Gull with 2cy Caspian Gull (Stara Wieś landfill).



LBBG ad. (L. f. fuscus, Stara Wieś, 17.04.2014))
 L. argentatus 2cy (Stara Wieś landfill, 17.04.2014)
Great Black-backed Gull - rarity in the south-eastern Poland (Stara Wieś landfill, 17.04.2014)
 Caspian Gull from the Wytyckie Lake, here at the landfill near Łęczna.
Larus cachinnans 9cy, probably female. Here in the breeding colony near Zastow Karczmiski (Vistula River). Ringed as pullus cachinnans on May 08 2006 at Wloclawek.
4cy Caspian Gull PHDL photographed 24 April 2014 near Zastow Karczmiski. Ringed as pullus on May  2011 at Jankowice Babice Malopolskie, Poland
Green P410 Caspian Gull photographed on Wytyckie Lake few days ago.

Caspian Gull 4cy, Zastow Karczmiski, 24.04.2014. Yellow PCEE  ringed as pullus on June 08 2011, at Kuznica Warezynska near Katowice. 
 Here a sketch 1cy Lesser Black-backed Gull from last year.

Monday 14 April 2014

I visited the landfill site near Łęczna (Stara Wieś). There were some ringed gulls:
2cy Caspian Gull (Wytyckie Lakie colony) with a head of  the Brown Bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus):
Part of the flock of 48 LBBG's

CG 3cy (from the Wytyckie Lake)
Croatian BHG (Siemień pounds)
Finnish LBBG:
Next bird from Finland
LBBG
4cy Caspian Gull
LBBG's

Caspian Gull, 2cy
Caspian Gull, ad
Black-headed Gull ringed in UK (North Thames Gull Group) 

Sunday 16 February 2014

Yesterday I got recovery from Romania. Herring Gull ringing by me (01/05/2012) in Lublin province on the Vistula river (breeding colony) was found on 08/02/2014 in Bucharest, Romania. So, bird wintering in area of the Black Sea, which is very unusual for this species. 
Vistula River, summer 2013

 Romania, Bucharest, 08.02.2014
 Maybe the bird is a hybrid (F2 or backross cach x arg) but some influence other species is barely detectable - if it all.