Light was fading and with rain starting to fall, I made it to the boating lake with about 30 minutes of light left. I got out of the car and..... Yessssssss, the Ring-billed Gull (296) was finally there on the grass below the car park!!
I'd photographed this bird back in 2008 (in summer plumage) so nice to get the winter plumage!
It then flew onto one of the boating pool buoys....
Then onto the water.....
With some unusual late afternoon reflections!
A final close up and then......
The long drive back to Shrewsbury! This had really been a make or break weekend and with four more birds to go, a few more miles to travel :-)
PS here's the same bird back in March 2008!! What a stunner :-)
