Sunday, September 2, 2012

Can Anyone ID This Gull?


September 2 Email:

Hi Ric,

Birded MWW yesterday 9-1-12 and saw an unusual Gull at the 3rd (coming from the west) aerator cell, pictures attached.  Sitting with Herring Gulls but smaller, size of Lesser Black-backed, bill color black, legs pinkish gray, no eye rings, solid dark gray mantel, dirty head.  Can’t seem to match this guy with any guides at my disposal.  Please let me know what the consensus is! 

Sending you an interesting juvenile Bald Eagle picture taken at the landfill.  Also seen were 2 Caspian Terns on the pipe on the west lagoon N.E. corner.

Barb Gay





1 comment:

Josh Kamp said...

Looks right for a 1st cycle Lesser Black-backed. There was one there last year if I remeber right.