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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEREK CHARLES" data-source="post: 1410506" data-attributes="member: 10781">Hello everyone,The gull linked in post 17 from Troon looks more like an Iceland than a Glaucous to me. A glaucous would always have a much thicker bill. I know from talking to a Scottish friend of mine that there was a very large Iceland Gull around Troon at this time that made you do a double take everytime you seen it, presumeably this bird?The original bird also looks like an Iceland i would assume any Glaucous x Herring would always have dark primaries or wash on the primaries and would never show plain white primaries like this bird.I think with both these pics its the age old problem of trying to identify birds from a single photograph sometimes in an unusual pose.Derekps i think Jan never has a bad day at the office, perhaps maybe the odd bad moment or two!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>