All together now - aaaahhhh!

[Ruby]

Just a bit of light entertainment.... What do you reckon this is then??

All too easy for the experts I reckon....

[swamp_rattler]

i have no clue really. a eurasian woodcock?

[SimonC]

I'm going to stick my neck out and suggest a Tern of some sort? (no books at work so can't check it out!)

[jurek]

Looks like a gull, eg. black-headed, but very dark.

[jacana]

i would say a gull, but i'll go little gull

[M Cowming]

Black-headed Gull

[Clouseau]

Bit dark for a BHG chick........ I'll go Common Tern

[Clouseau]

Bit dark for a BHG chick........ I'll go Common Tern

(But then I've been APPALLINGLY wrong three times in a row on here! LOL!)

[youngbirder92]

I also believe it is a Gull, but I won't venture as far as to suggest a specific species ;)

[JANJ]

Not a Common Tern, or Artic, I belive they are white below, with a darkish throat and a thinner redish bill. Otherwise I wouldent know.
JanJ

[Clouseau]

Wise words, JANJ! Now come off the fence! LOL!

[alan_rymer]

Being on gravel suggest a Tern, or a wader, but I will also take an uneducated guess at little Gull. But that looks like Groundsel which tends to point to a freshwater Gravel pit. Think I'll change to a Plover ( sp ). Hedging bets!.

[Jos Stratford]

I'd go also for a (dark) Black-headed Gull

[JANJ]

Wise words, JANJ! Now come off the fence! LOL!


Melanistic Black-headed Gull?
JanJ

[Ruby]

Sorry Guys - Been a bit busy and didn't have time to put you out of your misery (yeah, right!)

It IS a Black Headed Gull - I suspect that any apparently dark colouring stems more from my inability to correctly expose a photograph, rather than any melanistic tendencies of the bird itself...

... BHG eh? Who would have thought that anything so cute could grow up into something so irritating....

[JANJ]

The melanistic thing was a joke, and irritating, well, I don´t know if I agree on that one.
JanJ