please help - unknown gull?

[Jonners]

Originally Posted by Picidae

Hope that's not become a rule of thumb Jonners ! - None of us are infallible and it's always good for ID questions to be seen/confirmed by several people despite the 'confidence' some might have in another members responses. Of course, many new members post ID questions and may well want such second opinions if only to avoid any doubts on their part - I must admit I'm the first in line when it comes to being lazy in adding confirmations to other people's suggestions when I feel others have made a correct ID, but adding at least a couple of confirmation posts is probably not a bad practice for us to get into here - (doesn't need a whole page of people saying 'yes, it's a ...' but a few might be good).

Well in that case.....
I agree with Picidae:
Pic 1 Black Tailed Godwit
Pic 2 Black Tailed Godwits
Pic 3 Oystercatcher (left) and Lapwing (right)

[thebeard]

i like that picture of the godwits, it looks like they're lairily dancing down the beach.

[genevieve]

Thank you very much guys! sorry ive not replied - not managed to get on the computer for last few days - thankyou for the ID's though, you lot are fantastic! really helping me out with this - i might even get better at it now yeah i think an ID forum would be good idea too actually.
genevieve

[Picidae]

Originally Posted by genevieve

Thank you very much guys! sorry ive not replied - not managed to get on the computer for last few days - thankyou for the ID's though, you lot are fantastic! really helping me out with this - i might even get better at it now yeah i think an ID forum would be good idea too actually.
genevieve

No probs Genevieve - thought you may have lost where your original post was being a new member!