White wingers on the Sars

One of the pleasures of doing winter IBTS surveys is that white winged gulls are occasionally attracted to the vessel, along with the many other large gulls, fulmars and gannets. Usually the Scotia does a lot better for white wingers (as indeed it did this time!) but with 7 different glaucs and 2 different icers were a pretty good haul. Funnily enough most of these were in the far north and not too far from Shetland.