Wednesday, December 17, 2014
This glaucous gull was at Ardmair again today. It's a 1st winter bird, shown by the relatively dark plumage (although it can look remarkably different in different lights). The snowy appearance of the original glaucous shows that gull is well on the way to adult plumage, and is probably therefore a 2nd winter bird. I haven't seen it for over a week.
(Glaucous gull info from Birds of the Western Palearctic.)
Yesterday there were two turnstones on the beach with ringed plovers, oystercatchers, and rock pipits, and two snow buntings were still on the camp-site. But today the cold wind was too much for me, so after watching and snapping the 1st winter glaucous for a while, I gave up and went home.
// posted by Christine @ 10:09 AM 
