Crowborough 21/11/2016

A walk this morning around the town produced numerous Black-headed Gulls, now back from their breeding grounds, and one or two Herring Gulls, lingering on. Both appeared to be juveniles, the adults having already made tracks towards the coast. Amongst the gull flocks on the Beacon Academy and Sir Henry Fermor school's playing fields, I picked out at least five Common Gulls, not in immaculate breeding plumage, but in the duller winter plumage, with darker spots on the head. Of course the Black-headed Gulls only had one spot on the back of the head, as the brown hoods of the breeding season had long worn away.