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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Birdspotter" data-source="post: 1270547" data-attributes="member: 8069">As has been noted by another poster on this thread the streaking at the back of the head points towards an Arctic rather than a Pom, however the bird looks to have pale feather fringes on the mantle on my moniter this seems odd to me as its more akin to a LTS or Pom perhaps.However this might be due to the fact that it is showing a quite rare colour variant of Arctic Skua, rare to me that is as out of the hundreds I have seen over the years I can only think of around two birds such as this!With the wind in a NW direction and the rain lashing down outside at this moment thoughts of having some Skua action tommorrow is on my mind.:t:</blockquote>