Birds at the beach outside Butlins - Skegness

[riggy]

Just got back from a long weekend at Butlins (Skegness)

Can someone please help with ID'ing the following

1 ?Herring Gull


2 ?Dunlin/Knot/Sanderling


3 Not sure


Also on the beach on Saturday approx 30 Ringed Plover and on Sunday aprox 15 ?whooper swan heading south (near the wind turbines)

Cheers

Paul

[david156]

Hi.
The first picture could be either Herring or Lesser Black Backed. with a Black Headed on the far right. The middle picture looks like a Lesser as the Proportion of white on its tale looks right. The two birds flying in the right hand picture look like Herring. The last picture of gulls also look like Herring.
Its hard to judge sizes on these and gulls arn't my favourite birds to identify!

The waders look like sanderling to me.


Hope this helps.
I'm now gonna have a lie down!!!

[aeshna5]

1 Agree with Herring Gulls; also a Black-headed Gull in first.
2 Sanderling- prominent black mark on bend of wing dead give away on this bird.
3 Herring Gulls

Glad you had a good time!

[riggy]

Had a great time even found time to go on the rides with the kids!.
Each morning some of the fattest ducks I have seen stood outside chalet windows waiting for kids to throw bread etc.

Also saw great-black gulls.

really pleased about the sanderling first time I have seen one

Cheers

Paul