13 February 09
Albino Herring Gull
I went on a short jaunt at lunchtime today with a colleague to look for a reported lesser black-backed gull just north of Davis. We didn’t find it, but we found a group of birders on this spectacular white gull with a startling yellow-orange bill. The experts pronounced it an albino herring gull. I’m not sure I could ever come up with something like that… But it was a gorgeous bird in the field gently flooding in the rain.
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Crumbs. That’s not something I have ever heard of a whitish bird that is also albino. It’s a helluva call. Especially with Gulls. Makes you wonder how many of them came up with the idea independently. We found a white crow in the Yorkshire Dales a few years ago. Black beak and legs and white all over. That was a more black and white thing.