Am I boring you?

[antpitta]

Adult Ring-billed Gull: I'd never noticed their tongue before. The most abundant gull in Eastern Ontario during the summer (but an increasingly uncommon vagrant to the UK in recent years). As usual I took a lot of gull pictures - of birds of different ages (plumages) - as "homework" in the hope of one day finding my own wandering American gull nearer home!

[Lez325]

How this for a Gulls interior ?

[antpitta]

Guess yours is a Herring Gull.  Thank goodness we've not added the soundtracks!

[blackfox]

Adult Ring-billed Gull: I'd never noticed their tongue before. The most abundant gull in Eastern Ontario during the summer (but an increasingly uncommon vagrant to the UK in recent years). As usual I took a lot of gull pictures - of birds of different ages (plumages) - as "homework" in the hope of one day finding my own wandering American gull nearer home!

We did have a American laughing gull at new Brighton ( river Mersey) a few years ago Chris , very approachable to

[antpitta]

A long, long time ago (early 1990's) I spent a couple of years working in Texas and despite living a few hours drive inland (Austin) managed to visit the coast regularly - mainly around Galveston. On the Texas coast Laughing Gull was the most common species and - in breeding plumage at least - one of the most striking North American gulls. I probably have a few very poor 6x4 prints dating back to that time hidden away somewhere. I also remember a weekend spent watching the roof of Newcastle RVI (hospital) waiting to see my first ever Laughing Gull in the UK! The sins of my misspent youth (I've subsequently seen one much nearer home in Suffolk).