Caspian Gull

In the past, I have overlooked or taken for granted migrating gulls offshore as there is usually something else going on but these days with bird numbers having declined so much I now notice movements of gulls with a little more interest. The other day a couple of flocks of migrating Black-headed Gulls brightened what was otherwise a dull 90 minute sea watch at the Point.

Migrating Black-headed Gulls

A few Caspian Gulls have been occurring on the RSPB Reserve and today I picked up what I thought was a Caspian Gull on the ARC pit but on review of photos is quite clearly not one and then on Burrowes I found a brute of a Caspian that I think is in its 2nd or 3rd Calendar Year.

Caspian Gull

Caspian Gull