Cape Gull (Gaviota cocinera / Larus dominicanus vetula).
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This and the next shot were taken early in bad light.
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It
was first found by Gonzalo Pardo de Santayana at the Santoña fishing
port on the 9th December 2024 and rediscovered by Alvaro Bustamante on the
beach of Laredo on 3rd January 2025 and has been good enough to stay around until I returned to Spain from the UK.I arrived on the Ferry into Santander on the 18th January but did some birding around Santander and Santoña that day but was at the Puerto Deportivo de Laredo just after first light and first Coffee stop. I parked and walked out onto the longer of the two sea walls and just as I reached the far end the bird landed on the other seawall but close enough for me to get a few shots but as the light was still not great they are a bit grainy. It then moved to one of the floating piers but was too distant for any photo's and the flew off and disappeared for the next couple of hours but I eventually refound the bird in better light and it sat on a boat and allowed my self and the only other birder I saw there to get some nice shot.
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