A pale gull with flashy white wingtips lifts off the water, as if it knew in advance I was going to try and photograph it.

A yellow-legged slate-backed gull with a sooty face stands on a patch of dirty ice near a landfill in New Jersey.

These two were the consolation prizes for four hours of sorting through gulls looking for the no-show Glaucous-winged Gull that had fled the scene just prior to my arrival. First-year Iceland Gull and Lesser Black-backed Gull in NJ for #birdsseenin2026 #gulling #birding

This immature Bald Eagle was not a welcome visitor a couple of days ago when we were trying to find NJ’s first Glaucous-winged Gull in a crowd of hundreds of more usual gulls. When this youngster came over, every single one of them fled the scene! #birdsseenin2026 #gulling #birding

A decent couple of hours at Redgate Recycling, Gorton, Manchester, today. Four Caspian Gulls, including two green-ringed 1stw's ( N9 and WU) and an unringed 1stw, plus a green-ringed 2ndw (A8) @birdguides.bsky.social @birdinguk.bsky.social #gulling #cachinnans

This rather demure 1stw Caspian Gull was good value at a bitterly cold Redcar Tarn, West Yorks, this afternoon @birdguides.bsky.social #BirdingUK #gulling #cachinnans

1stw and Adult Caspian Gulls on the River Mersey at Widnes this afternoon. Also four Yellow-legged Gulls ( 2x ad + 2x 3rdw) @birdguides.bsky.social #BirdingUK #gulling #cachinnans

...I didn't connect with 100s of Suffolk gulls late this afternoon but the flocks I did get to enjoy held several smart argentatus Herring Gulls amongst them, including this fine adult. Always so beefy! Always super smart.
#SuffolkBirding
#gulling

Sometimes the architecture is just as stunning as the bird. Yellow-legged gull on the rooftops of Cadiz, Spain. #birds #birding #gulling

Dawn #patchbirding Water Rail, Woodcock, Green Sand, GWE, Marsh Harrier, Barn Owl, 2 Cetti’s, 3 Stonechat, 21 Brambling, 3 Bullfinch, 6 Siskin. Surprisingly poor #gulling at WSR/Runcorn Bridge, no sign of Kumlien’s or any YLG/Casps 😕 #UKBirding

Laughing Gull

Immature Laughing Gull
Love these Gulls! 😍

#birding #gulling #gulls #novascotia #guysboroughcounty #laughinggull

A damp, chilly and lonely place! The view across North Scrape as the roost ground to a halt in the low cloud and mist as the minutes ticked by. If it was clear, it would have been almost 5pm before I'd have to have stopped ~ so that's a good sign right?!?
3/3
#gulling
#NorfolkBirding

#Landfill by Tim Dee, #review: In one of the first of Dee’s observations about #gullers he calls them: “men leaving their homes and their families to spend time peering at arsey birds in some of the arseholes of the world.”
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#birding #gulling #gulls #birdbooks 📚

Landfill by Tim Dee: Review I have visited my local landfill for the last seven years, usually several times per winter, only to recently stumble upon a book called the Landfill! While I have written several blogs on the topic (...

Tim Dee’s #Landfill feels like meeting an old #gulling friend and, over an ale or two, listening to his stories about #gulls & girls, dumps & old books, a bit like Charles Marlow telling his fellow sailors how he went up that river, “like...
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#birding #birdbooks

Spot of #patchbirding mainly spent #gulling again - Water Rail, Green Sand, ad Caspian Gull, Kumlien’s Gull, GWE, Marsh Harrier, 3 Cetti’s, 7 Stonechat, 8 Brambling 😁

Come@Me: Watching Gulls is for Weirdos Who is eyeing gulls? I sure didn’t, for many years. Too simple. White and grey? Colouristically mediocre. Not even 60 species worldwide? Too easy. That small one is [now name the commonest small gull ...

Who is eyeing #gulls? I sure didn’t, for many years. Too simple. White and grey? Colouristically mediocre. Not even 60 species worldwide? Too easy. So, where’s a sportsman’s challenge there?
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#gulling #birding #birdwatching

Afternoon #patchbirding mostly spent #gulling 2 Water Rail, 200 Golden Plover, Jack Snipe, Woodcock, Common Sand, 1w Caspian Gull, 3 YLG, Iceland-type (prob the ad Kumlien’s), GWE, 4 Marsh Harrier, SEO, 5 Cetti’s, 4 Stonechat, Rock Pipit, 14+ Brambling, Yellowhammer #UKBirding

#Gulls of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East: An Identification #Guide is a stunning #gulling #birdIDguide with many great photos (even I say hurray to photos), authoritative texts and easy to navigate maps. Recommended!!
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@princetonupress.bsky.social #birding

The #Gulls weren’t playing ball this morning, or should I say the bright sunrise. Stacks tightly packed roosting on WSR (due to the high tide) until 9.20 when they all got up and 90% drifted off towards Widnes. Plenty of winter left to keep checking though 😁 #gulling #UKBirding

2nd winter Yellow-legged Gulls, Port Vell, Barcelona Nov 24 (poor iPhone pics) #Seabirds #Gulls #gulling #Birds #michahellis

Afternoon #patchbirding Water Rail, Woodcock, Common Sand, 3 YLG, 2 RN Parakeet, Cetti’s, 4 Stonechat, 6 Bullfinch, 2 Siskin, Yellowhammer….the sunshine was rather short lived, so cold and increasing wind meant only one thing… #gulling #CheshireBirding #UKBirding

Good numbers of large gulls at WSR Recycling, Widnes, Cheshire, this afternoon. 1stw Caspian Gull, four Yellow-legged Gulls ( 1stw, 3rdw, 2ad). Also an ad argentatus Herring Gull with yellow legs, previously known as "omissus". Pic of ad YLG below #ukbirding @birdguides.bsky.social #gulling #gulls

Three 1stw Caspian Gulls at Redcar Tarn, West Yorks, this afternoon. Also adult and 2ndw Yellow-legged Gulls #birdguides #cachinnans #gulling #rarebirdsUK

Bit of #gulling from the balcony - minter!

We’ll this is a little optimistic! #gulling

Oooh, hello! Don't get many big gulls on the local patch so wasn't expecting to experience that arresting sight of a leggy, snouty gleaming white-headed specimen peering out over the crowd. 2cy #CaspianGull at #AlstonWetland on and off this morning. Ace. #gulling

Seeing as nobody else has..... #gulls #gulling #BestGull

Nice to get the ringing record back eventually on this bird from Preston Docks in June 2019 - ringed the previous year on the 22 June as a chick in Wervershoof, De Kreupel, The Netherlands @FyldeBirdClub #gulling

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Was great to see this 2cy LBB at the Marine lake earlier - normally just scruffy Herrings of this age, so this long-winged elegant bird was a nice change #gulling

Decent festive #gulling at #Enniskillen Dump #Fermanagh this afternoon. 4cy Glauc, juv Iceland, a couple of probable Glauc x Herring hybrids and three colour-ringed Herring Gulls.

Adult Med Gull just drifted high over house south #gulling - now bring on that Glossy!

Lovely ad Med at #Marshside #gulling