I made a quick trip after work yesterday to Seafield Point near Quilty where almost 1,000 gulls were feeding on the seaweed mass deposited by the recent rough seas along the shoreline. I picked out this North American Bonaparte's Gull within the large mixed flock. This is the 7th County record of this rare vagrant. There was also one first-winter Ring-billed Gull and an Iceland Gull, my first for this winter.
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Adult winter Bonaparte's Gull at Seafield, Quilty John N Murphy