Gulls. More Gulls. Even- You Get The Idea...

So, after having that glorious Glonk fly past me last Sunday evening, I went back at next opportunity - last Monday afternoon - to see if it was hanging around. I saw lots of gulls. Lots.

I've since been back a couple more times [because Persistence]. I've seen more gulls. Not quite just gulls [Gannets and Fulmars and Guillemots are around, too], but well. Anyways, I decided to combine the lot togther, so...

Lookit;

Lots of gulls.

Really.

See?

Blah blah blah

Herring Gulls, assorted.

But you keep looking

And looking

I love the Lead Stone. If you're high enough up the Second Slope to see the far side, the gulls are dots in a photo, but if you're right down by the Sole, you only get to see half of them...

Or you try flight shots.. [Gulp]

Mix and match

2cy Common Gull

Same, blurry but look at the underside

Wotsit 1

Wotsit 2

Common Gull

Not a gull!

GND.

Not so low-flying

Cormorant, in breeding condition

Count the Grey Seals

One

Two

Three!

Back to the gulls...

Just standard Herrings, but note the variations in structure especially. Look at the head shapes of the cute one on the left and the bruiser in front, the classic in the middle [and pose difference with the one to its left], and that one at the back.

Wotsit 3

Ok, ok, enough of the wotsits. They are all, of course, Herring Gulls. [Ooops,  Spoiler!]
No.2 being of particular note, being one of those very pale washed-out ones you can mistake for a first winter white-winger if you've never seen one before. [Though note actual darker and dark bits on outer primaries and tail tip - bit of a giveaway*]. I say that because the true glowing white flight feathers of an actual Iceland or Glonk are so ridiculously amazing that once you've seen one you won't forget it; like porcelain, they are. The effect is kind of like seeing Sprawks and then a Gos.


[*Yes, Kumlien's - and even more Thayer's - have dark{er} primaries, but not like that...]


Enough about gulls and so on. For now.


Coming up, an aside about the Patch, a Wild Duck Hunt, and an actual half-decent seawaaaaatch! [Shock..]


Oh, you're all just gnawing your fingers in anticipation, aren't you?

:D


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