West Angle

Two adult Mediterranean Gulls on the beach at West Angle first thing this morning.

Also, I have attached another pic of the birds engaged in bonding reinforcement last weekend, the quality of the pic isn't great, but the behaviour is self evident. This display beaviour, combined with the constant contact calling between the mother and the juv, left me in no doubt at all that this was a family group. Colleagues in S Spain have told me that our LBB Gulls often arrive on their beaches in family groups, and I have often seen terns migrating in family groups (not to mention auks of course), so I am afraid that I can't subscribe to the view that we can't refer to 'family groups' without ringing evidence.