What a pretty Gull an Iceland Gull is. As an absolute bonus yesterday and after our afternoon on the water, we went of to the opposite side of the harbour where we had been told that an  Iceland Gull was showing well…… and it was.  It was a nice "lifer" for me and brings my tally for photographed species in Devon up to 199. 

The Iceland Gull is in the same family as Herring Gull "larus" but was noticeably smaller than the Herring Gulls that it was associating with.  It is a peaceful, graceful looking bird, in adult plumage, snowy white but this one was a second year bird and had some vestiges of brown markings as you can see.  I took these images just at dusk and the better beamer flash extender really worked well in this instance, picking out the detail magnificently.  I have many more pictures of this bird and I will add some later.