I really enjoy the excitement of beginning each new year’s patch bird list, walking miles (I’ve clocked up my first hundred today), checking out locations I’ve come to know much more intimately during the last two years of enforced restrictions on movement (one of the few positives of this pandemic has been learning my local area more thoroughly), finding the less common birds that often elude me. And the latter includes this stunning Common gull (Larus canus), number 76 on my 2022 list.
It was on the lakeside boardwalk at Cosmeston Lakes, feeding with the Black-headed gulls on seed that had been sprinkled by an earlier passer-by. My approach caused the birds to move back to the water, but not far away. I took a few photos, then sprinkled some seed of my own to encourage the birds back to the boardwalk, which worked a treat.
earthstar 
An impressive start as we’re still in January! Still trying to work out why common gulls are so called ? I see them here in just one place on the coast, but not often and then in very small numbers.
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According to Fauna Britannica. common in this case means ordinary rather than frequent. Like you, I see very few – just a handful each year. 🙂
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Thats a good daily average.
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I presume you mean the walking, not the birds?
I had a goal last year to walk 5 miles a day on average & didn’t quite make it so I’m trying again this year, but trying to stay in advance of my target. And I enjoy it!
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