Most individual birds are now moulting into their breeding plumages, and beginning to look absolutely stunning.
This bird was just changing into some breeding feathers, but is very slow.
This individual was noticeably still very grey indeed and I wondered whether it might be a young non-breeder? It seemed to me to be superficially quite "scaly" on its wings and coverts, but most importantly fairly well worn, so possibly still retaining its juvenile feathers. Its bill was incidentally also clearly still over-wintering pink as opposed to the breeding yellow.
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