It won't be long before the larophiles are sent into rapture by the arrival of this year's crop of juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls but in the meanwhile the occasional sub-adult's popping up to relieve their pent-up expectation; this one dropped in below Culverwell for a while this morning © Keith Pritchard:
Not having Rain Man-esque recall of even our own records we were left puzzling over whether or not we'd actually ever previously seen a Fulmar in Portland Harbour after one had scooted past while we were milling around at Ferrybridge this evening; we're not going to trouble to look up the facts right now save to make the observation that in recent years they're certainly no more than extremely infrequent visitors to the harbour © Martin Cade: