Christine's walking & birds blog

Late afternoon in failing light, a bunch of gulls hung in the rain-spattered air above and around the docked ferry - among them this white-winger.

  
I know that the Viking gull is still present because I saw it earlier from West Terrace, down on the river spit. But this gull looks neater and more nicely balanced, lacking the front-heavy look of a glaucous or glaucous hybrid. The visibility was awful but I think I'll put this down as an Iceland gull; it seems to be the one I saw here and snapped on March 3rd, but with even worse results than this!