Monday, January 20, 2020
The Iceland gull was again in the harbour, joining a throng of great black-backed, herring, and black-headed gulls cruising about as a fishing boat transferred its catch to a truck.
With a bad-weather start to 2020, the year list is growing very slowly; so it's nice to get an early white-winger. And perhaps this year, glaucous gull will be back on the list. It's funny how quickly you adapt your expectations in a new place; we saw our first glaucous in 2014, soon after we'd moved here - and I've got so used to seeing them, I felt a bit indignant at their absence in 2019. If there's one thing I should have learnt over the years, it's never to take birds (any birds!) for granted.
// posted by Christine @ 9:32 AM 
