8th March....

Aside from the wintering Common Sandpiper, and an adult Yellow-legged Gull, the only notable bird during the last hour of light today, was a "that could be a candidate for a fuscus-type Gull". It was very small in size, with a small head, very long primary projection, with white tips just visible on several feathers, low in the water, and jet black looking on the mantle (same colour as primaries) - there were many intermedius and a few graellsii near-by for comparison.... if only there was a sure-fire way to ID them!