An aborted look at Heronries because of the high wind today left me looking again at Victoria Park for an Iceland, or even better Glaucous Gull. I got the Iceland, and didn't really expect a Glaucous. I moved on from there to Danger Point (Old Brewhouse) where a large number of mostly immature Herring Gulls were preening and drying on the rocks partly out of the wind.
Iceland Gull 2nd cy, click here for video
Iceland Gull, 2nd calendar year
Again with Herring Gulls
Maybe a better photo for comparison
I added this one taken with my P1000 when I first saw the gull and too far away for the DSLR
This is a Great Black-backed sequence which I anticipated (for a change). Photo one, it's thinking about it
Preparing for launch
No going back now
Lift off
All of that just for a few metre or two
This one flew very close as I walked back to the car
Another Great Black-backed Gull, a 3rd calendar year bird with a yellow ring 159:M. Ringed on Isle of May 8/7/2019, sighted in Anstruther and Pittenweem in 2020, this was first sighting in 2021. I had it as a 2nd cy bird and the ringer was surprised when it came back as 3rd cy. It seems again that the birds don't read the books or look at Gull Research Organisation like I do
The same gull, included just to show off!
Pied Wagtail on the Brothock Burn, no sign of the Grey Wagtail today, but the male Dipper was there