Jane Turner
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6 Yellow-legged Gulls, 2 or 3 Mediterranean Gulls and that appeared to be the American Herring Gull on the rising tide to day. The latter was a huge dark bird that was showing a glauc-type bill pattern on the sea, and when it flew had an apparently all dark tail and very dark secondaries but paler inner primaries. It went off east an hour or so before the tide. Light was worse and the bird further than in my previous attempts to record it, still you can get an impression of its bulk and darkness in the first photo - and how far it was when you see the part of the gull flock it was in on 8x mags (second two photos)