Gull, Scotland (1 Viewer)

[Alcina]

Anyone with better gull ID skills than me want to confirm what this is, if they can manage it with the appalling image quality caused by holding a 14-year-old point and click camera up to the scope?

In the field the eye was definitely dark. The last picture includes a bog-standard herring for comparison.

 

[lou salomon]

this looks to be another herring gull. exact wingtip pattern would have been helpfull though. bill doesn't look good for caspian, there seems to be no solid black band on p5 (hard to assess though) and primary projection is on the short side, so, most probably a local argenteus herring gull.

 

[Alcina]

Sorry, that was the best shot I could get of the wings; it was raining heavily and very dark, and the camera was a point and click. I didn't like the look of the bill for Caspian either, which is why I posted it here, in spite of the small head and dark eye.