Adult Glaucous Gull in Austria!

[WolfgangSchweighofer]

At least I hope it is one - but what else should it be?

This evening at the gull roost near Melk, power station, river Donau, this individual occured. Last accepted Glaucous in Austria was 1979, a 1st winter.

Wolfgang

[Theo Muusse]

No problem to me!
Well done.

Theo

[Cristian Mihai]

Looks good for me. Congrats!
Would you be so kind to send it a few hundreds kilometeres east...

[hieraaetus]

Hi Wolfgang,

That's a bird i really wanna see at my spot:)
Make sure when you send it to Cristian it stops for a while in Hungary too:))

cheers,

Gabor

Looks good for me. Congrats!
Would you be so kind to send it a few hundreds kilometeres east...

[WolfgangSchweighofer]

That's a bird i really wanna see at my spot:)
Make sure when you send it to Cristian it stops for a while in Hungary too:))

Hi guys, I can understand that wishes very well. Last year I had asked Michal to send me one from Lubna
But believe me: Here in Austria several people are wishing exactly the opposite!
In early morning I drove to the power station to see how many people there are. 6 cars from different parts of Austria had arrived during night. While they were waiting at the wrong wall (gulls had changed to the upper wall) I went to the right place and was able to spot the bird again for 1 or 2 minutes! Only 2 persons (with bikes) had seen the Glaucous swimming in the upper water of the power station, the top lister of Austria´s C300 among them.

What I can say: The bird has left the wall downstream, eastwards...

Wolfgang

[WolfgangSchweighofer]

The Glaucous Gull moves east! A lot of twitchers havn´t been successful at Melk yesterday evening but today afternoon the gull was rediscovered at powerstation Greifenstein near Vienna. Chances for Hungary are increasing
Wolfgang