Mediterranean Gull, Kensington Gardens

I'd almost given up hope of photographing the wintering Mediterranean Gull on the Round Pond having failed on every trip there this winter. Today I had the lens trained on a Black-headed Gull, waiting for the moment of take-off when it was knocked of a buoy by the Med Gull! It has a green leg ring AASZ from a capture at Elbe Estuary in Germany in 2004.