American Herring Gull: This especially tame first winter AHG was found towards the end of lockdown back mid March, so again I had to hope and pray to the birding Gods that it would stay until I got a chance to go once the travel restrictions had been lifted.
The bird remained upon the roof for sometime before coming back down and rejoining the other gulls loafing on the shoreline of the harbour.
Amongst its European counterparts this bird really stood out like beast.
The bird is distinctly bigger then a European herring gull with a gray-brown, dark tail, a brown rump with dark bars, dark outer primaries and pale inner primaries.
AHG breed across Alaska and northern Canada, south to the Great Lakes and along the Atlantic Coast south to North Carolina. they over winter from southern Alaska south to Mexico and from the Great Lakes and Massachusetts south to the Caribbean and Central America.
I love Cornwall, it's a place I plan to spend more time at as the baby grows up and seek some family staycations.