A rarely-seen glaucous gull has flown several thousand miles from Russia and amazingly set down at Highbridge’s Apex Park this week.
The juvenile gull, more commonly seen in the Arctic, has been enjoying the lakes this week, only metres from visitors.
Scores of bird watchers and photographers have flocked to the park to get a glimpse of the gull.
Younger birds are creamy white or biscuit coloured, depending on age and are bigger and bulkier than a herring gull, with a fiercer expression, larger beak and squarer head than the smaller but virually identically-plumaged Iceland gull.
Pictured: The glaucous gull at Apex Park this week (Pics: Jan Bonus)
