If you told me 6 months ago that I would one day be interested birds I would have called you crazy. Yet here I am, going cross eyed as I flip through every bird book on the shelf trying to decipher which gull is which and how to identify their various life stages. 

It started this morning when I saw a brownish/grey bird I’d never seen before fly by. It had a stumpy looking neck/head and its wings seemed almost stiff as it flew (if that makes sense). I only managed to get one terrible photo of it through the window and I have spent the majority of the day consulting colleagues and books trying to figure out what it was. I’ve got it narrowed down to a few options and will post a photo of it once I am confident in its ID.

From there I sat on the rocks with my camera hoping it would show up again and in the meantime snapping photos of the gulls – who by the way are still not acting aggressive in any way when I pass their nests. I took a photo which I’ll post a below in which there seems to be multiple different gulls but I really started going down the rabbit hole when I was trying to determine if they were different species or just the same species at different ages. Thankfully one of my relatives is a bird expert and photographer and was able to help me with a few!

** All wildlife photos taken at the furthest distance possible, and may be cropped to improve detail! **