An adult Little Gull was seen at the mouth of the Little River about one mile south of Belfast on Sunday morning. The gull was observed for about 1/2 hour standing on a rockweed covered rock and swimming nearby, and was still there when I left.
The bird was small (about 1/6 the size of a nearby adult Herring Gull) and chunkier than a Bonaparte's Gull. While standing and swimming, there was no black seen in the primaries. Feet and legs were not black, but in the early light I could not determine the actual color. The bill was straight and black. Behind the eye was a black smudge patch (noticeably larger than that of a Bonaparte's), and there was a black cap wrapping around the back of the head ( in other words, the head markings were exactly as depicted in field guides for a bird in winter plumage). While I was there, the bird never took flight and I never saw the black wing linings.
Ron Harrell
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