Progression of an individual Yellow-legged Gull from 2W (3cy) to Adult

© A. R. Dean

Images 19, 20 & 21.  3W (4cy), early February 2011.

(Image 1 in the series is at 20/01/2010).

Photographed in early February, 2011, the head is now clean white. Note pattern of p5, p6, p9 and p10. The iris remains creamy-white while the colour of the legs remains rather insipid : fleshy with a pale yellow suffusion, especially around the webs and joints (less fully yellow than when it was in its second summer). This is not unusual in 4cy individuals. See here for a very similar 4cy individual photographed in December 2008/January 2009 in the West Midlands.