Gull City !

Moses Gate Country Park - 17.1.21

Over the last few days I've been reading daily reports of an arctic white winged gull specifically an Iceland Gull visiting regularly a small lake just a few miles drive away. A gull that normally breeds in Arctic Greenland and N Canada so making it a rare visitor to northern England. 

The weather have been pretty grim over the last few days with either fog, rain or just poor light not the conditions that's going to make a visit worth while, but with an improvement this morning and rain for the remainder of the week I'm going to spend an hour seeing what's on offer.

It's a few years since I was last at Moses Gate CP and I must say I wasn't expecting it to be so busy both in terms of people numbers and the shear amount of gulls present. Iceland Gull unlike our resident gulls have white wing tips making it pretty easy to pick out, I say that so long as there isn't hundreds of gulls to sift through, which is exactly what's present !

Scanning the masse of gulls for twenty minuets or so I pick up the immature Iceland gull which is more cream coloured rather that the more light brown of the other juveniles, it's just a matter of waiting for the gulls including the Iceland Gull to get interested in all the free food thrown to the ducks, yes this is real bird photography....not !

Iceland Gull