Seafood, Sea Birds & See Birds at Bangpu (3)

After taking shelter from the scorching hot sun in the watch tower, I head to the jetty for the gulls & terns. I'm never good at identifying sea birds especially gulls & terns! They come in so many different plumage/morph even though they are from the same species! Well, I'm so excited finally get to see so many different species of gulls & terns and at the same time, having headache to id all the different species that I saw. Do notify me if you spotted any wrong id...



 Whiskered tern

 Little tern

 Is late afternoon and sun setting soon. This Little Cormorant is trying the dry feathers before dark.

Brown headed gull in all the different pose. Love the lighting now & it add colour to the almost all white subjects.

There are only 2 out of thousand of terns & gulls at Bangpu. Need to spend some time to spot this Heuglin's Gull (Larus heuglinii). Once you spot them, you will not miss them as they are so different from other gulls or terns.

Very similar to Brown headed gull, but with slightly narrower bill and more prominent dark ear-spot is this Black Headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) on the right chasing the Brown Headed Gull.

 Black Headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)

 The gulls & terns will visit this place every year from late October otherwise a quiet jetty.

What an amazing experience to have gulls & terns all over your head right? This place give me an alternative else I'll have to travel further to remote off-shore island or Australia/New Zealand to have the same experience!

At Bangpu, everyone is a photographer! From DSLR, compact camera, smart phone to tablet! Everyone just can't resist to capture this special moment. Will you?