Second winter Glaucous Gull taking a drink in the fresh water run-off to the beach at the Piedras Blancas Elephant seal rookery, California. Quite a well bleached specimen, but the first Glaucous Gull I have seen.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/32541690@N02">Alan Vernon</a>
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