Black headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) in flight over flooded Salt marsh, searching the strandline for food that the spring tide may have brought in. A high spring tide floods the Saltmarsh completely. Morecambe Bay. Common visitor to the garden. Adaptation into urban areas appears to date only to the 'Little Ice-Age', a run of cold-winters in the 1880s and 1890s. Factory workers would feed the birds scraps during their lunch hours.
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Black headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) in flight over flooded Salt marsh, Morecambe Bay,
Black headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) in flight over flooded Salt marsh, searching the strandline for food that the spring tide may have brought in. A high spring tide floods the Saltmarsh completely. Morecambe Bay. Common visitor to the garden. Adaptation into urban areas appears to date only to the 'Little Ice-Age', a run of cold-winters in the 1880s and 1890s. Factory workers would feed the birds scraps during their lunch hours.

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Date: 9 Oct 2010
Location: Pilling Lancashire, North West UK
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