The dullness of a grey autumn day was broken with a splash of orange.
Not a Kingfisher or a late Clouded Yellow but a bit of jewellery. This Herring Gull acquired its bling not in some far flung country bordering the Caspian sea but at Pitsea Landfill site in Essex. Having been later seen at Cley on the North Coast it took up temporary residence at Walcott.
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