Christine's walking & birds blog

The white-winged gull was again in the harbour this morning.


It looks whiter than the viking gull I snapped here in January, the brown speckling seeming to be absent from the flight feathers. The bill is slightly different, or has perhaps changed with age, in that the dark mark has gone from the upper mandible and is reduced on the lower; otherwise the face and head appear identical. I think I'd put this down as the viking.

The only other bird of note was a sparrowhawk, flying over the rooftops and then swooping down out of sight between the houses.