Adult Glaucous Gull, Dingle, 8th December 2015 (M.O'Clery).
Adult Glaucous Gull, Dingle, 8th December 2015 (M.O'Clery).
A big, beefy adult Glaucous Gull, the Tony Soprano of gulls. Don't mess with this one.
Little Auk, near Castlegregory, 8th December 2015 (M.O'Clery).
Little Auk (same as above), near Castlegregory, 8th December 2015 (M.O'Clery).
Little Auk (same as above), near Castlegregory, 8th December 2015 (M.O'Clery).
And at the opposite end of the size spectrum, one of two Little Auks seen at Sandy Bay this afternoon, both alighting briefly on the sea before heading N and out of the Sandy Bay area. Before something altogether more enormous appeared.