Italian Gulls

I was in Italy recently having a 'normal' holiday... binocular-free. Of course I added Italian Sparrow to my life list and enjoyed seeing Blue Rock Thrush on Rome's Colosseum. In Venice, we came across a small square where a fish market stall was being set up with the catch being gutted and cleaned over a street drain. This was attracting Yellow-legged Gulls. While Lisa wrote her postcards, I took a few photographs and made some sound-recordings (no microphone with me) using the built-in mics on my small handheld device. Life in the square was noisy with locals, tourists and gulls! 

Adult Yellow-legged Gull, Venice, Italy, 28/09/13

Ad Yellow-legged Gull, Venice, Italy, 28/09/13

  

Ad Yellow-legged Gull, Venice, Italy, 28/09/13

 

                         

                         Long call from an adult at a small fish market stall.

                          

                          Mewing calls from birds scavenging around a small fish market stall.

                          

                          Calls from squabbling birds scavenging around a small fish market stall.

Waiting for scraps of fish being gutted at the market stall

Juvenile/1st-autumn Yellow-legged Gull, Venice, Italy, 28/09/13

4th-autumn Yellow-legged Gull, Venice, Italy, 28/09/13

2nd-autumn Yellow-legged Gull, Venice, Italy, 28/09/13

Adult Yellow-legged Gull, Venice, Italy, 28/09/13

3rd-autumn Yellow-legged Gull, Venice, Italy, 28/09/13