I haven't had much to put on here lately. I did see a Waxwing by the roadside when I was working down in Northumberland on Feb 9th which was the first one I've seen for a few years, there hasn't been a big Waxwing year for a while.
After my success with a white-winged gull from the bedroom window I've been keeping an eye on the gull roost movement over Dunfermline on the weekends; I haven't been lucky again but some good numbers of gulls, mainly Herring, have been coming over on the run up to dusk (just under 2,000 counted on the weekend of Feb 13th-14th).

Going off in a totally different direction... I've gone back into my photo collection  from the cruise to the eastern seaboard of N America in Sept/October 2015. I found some photos I'd taken of some very distinctive looking Eider when we were in dock at Saint John, New Brunswick. This is in part a nod to the sad passing of Martin Garner. It was his excellent publication Challenge Series, Winter that enabled me to Id them as Dressers Eider.......

A male Dressers is a distinctive looking bird; in particular the broad frontal lobes with spoon shaped ends that reach close to the eye and the high peaked fore crown. The scapular sails are very prominent but Northern Eiders borealis and even some  Common Eider (particularly some birds in NE Scotland) can show these. One record in the Western Palearctic from Donegal with the potential for more records.