Month: January 2024

This smart juv Iceland Gull was the highlight of this mornings seawatch/Gull session at st Margarets bay.

Joined initially by Sam Perfect, He and I also had an Adult Caspian gull (same adult i saw just before new year) and 2 different 1st winter Casps.

Big gorgeous 1st winter, probably the nicest ive seen all season.

2nd First winter Caspian Gull below…

1st winter and adult in same shot below…

Above the ‘regular’ adult Caspian Gull and below another adult Caspian below which came in towards the end of the session, (by which time a small group of local legends had gathered) This bird doesn’t exactly show a classic primary pattern; lacking the long grey tongues eating into the black on the outer , suggesting mixed parentage perhaps? despite fairly decent underside to primaries and nice facial expression, dark iris etc)

Another post about Gulls and really a photo dump detailing some of the 30 different Caspian Gulls I saw in Dover in December. Each image is a different bird and in no real order; just some of the nicer photographs I took during the month, Showing some variation within the species, enjoy!