This beauty is a Sabine's gull, a bird which normally breeds in the Arctic and outside the breeding season is highly pelagic, wandering the seas far from land....I have seen one only once in my lifetime...... from a boat off the Scilly Isles many years ago. I particularly love the wing pattern. This individual has turned up at Startops reservoir near Tring in Hertfordshire, about as far away from the sea as you can get and when I finished watching it yesterday evening it was roosting on the barley straw bales in the middle of the water. Quite a rarity indeed. For many, gulls have a bad reputation as being loud, aggressive plunderers but if you think they are all the same then look again and you will start to appreciate them for what they are....intelligent, beautiful and successful opportunists........
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