Many readers will remember the UK's first Cape Gull, at Grafham Water, Cambridgeshire, in the first half of August, 2022. Indeed, many will have been to see this big brute of a black-backed, huge-billed, dark-eyed, long grey-legged gull. You may even recall that it was deemed (by the stage of moult and wear) to be a second-summer bird and that after it left the site (10 August, 2022), it seemingly vanished into thin air and was not seen elsewhere.
However, on 18 June 2023, there it was again, back at Grafham Water, now a third-summer bird, of course; but it was soon off again, that same day, not to be seen again that year. You may have guessed by now, that Grafham's Cape Gull was seen again during August this…
