The birds largely conceal the band of the River Wear below its east bank at this location between Chester-Le-Street and the grounds of Lumley Castle. The black-headed gulls are in winter plumage where the black head, (more brown in reality), turns white with just dark smudges showing behind the eyes.
Uploaded to Geograph by Trevor Littlewood on 1 January 2015
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