23rd December

Med Gull still present at Mount Tabor 2.00PM. Talking to Mike Denton last night about this bird and I mentioned its odd tail pattern, he reckons that its lost its two outer left hand tail feathers and replaced them with second winter feathers ie. when a first winter bird looses a tail feather it doesnt replace it with another first winter feather but grows feathers in the next stage of the birds plumage early.