this 3cy Pomarine Skua was resting on the beach when I first saw it but it was beyond a flock of 1500 Herring Gulls! a careful approach was fruitless with the gulls flushing at 200m but later it came back over the beach twice chasing terns and Kittiwakes and while not the closest bird on the beach it was nice to get some images of this plumage in digital; in 1987 up to 16 birds could be found loafing and bathing on the beach off Rimac with a minimum of 26 different individuals being present in the ensuing 3 weeks -- I have a series of nice photos on KChrome slides but it is nice to be able to update to digital images -- hopefully with the apparent wealth of sand eels off shore the terns will continue to build up and bring in more skuas as the autumn progresses after all it is still July!
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That's a superb set of pom images Graham.
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