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16th January

A very cold but bright and sunny day was relatively uneventful with decent numbers of Gannets, Great Crested Grebes and Guillemots feeding offshore and the regular first-winter Caspian Gull still present the only birds of note.
Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans   first-winter   Dungeness
I wonder if this might be the most photographed individual gull in the world?

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