King's Lynn Fisher Fleet, 4th December 2015
This Iceland Gull gave our local docks a visit in the first week of December, it was after the storm in the north of the country called Desmond. I drove down to the fisher fleet and was joined by two more birders, which was very handy as there was loads of gulls to go through. It was first located on top of the shellfish factory where it stayed briefly before flying off. It was relocated swimming in the river, so we ran to the corner of crossbank road and watched it join a party of mallards on the muddy
bank. It sat there awhile enjoying the wintry sun and started to preen itself. This bird is a juvenile which has strayed down from its usual wintering grounds in the North Atlantic,- probably pushed down by the bad weather- this is my second Iceland Gull the first being seen at Blackborough End refuse dump way back in February 2005.
