I have never seen a Caspian Gull but just a few miles away, there can be up to 7 at Milton Tip Cambridgeshire. But, for me, the problem is finding one in probably 10,000 or so gulls.

Accepting a very kind invitation from a friend, James Hanlon, we met at the tip and he proceded to scan the assembled gulls and immediately found two, both well over 100 metres away. Obviously a digiscoping subject at that distance, but I took a few record shots with the DSLR - not the best images I have ever taken by any stretch of the imagination.

Both highly cropped - and after those two sightings, we did not have another confimed sighting.

And if you ask me if I could now identify a Caspian Gull amongst thousands of others,replica watches the answer would be - probably not - thanks for trying to educate me James!!!