I set off to clean my beaches but rush straight home again with my heart a pumping. I grab my camera and it is still there when I make it back to the beach. Yes, a Seagull! The first I have seen in 2 years in Okinawa.

Black Tailed Gull. Notice black and red tip to beak.

It looked very bedraggled.  I suppose it was blown in during the bad weather last week.

Why are there no seagulls on Okinawa?

A grey morph Pacific Reef Egret just beside the gull.