I had two ICELAND GULLS at the Cornell compost facility this morning. One was a first-cycle youngster with an all-black bill (just a bit of pale at the base of the lower mandible), pale and patterned tertials and tail feathers, and a fair amount of dusky in the wingtips. The other was a 2-year old with a mostly pale bill with a black ring near the tip, some silver in the mantle, and fairly dusky wingtips. It was a more robust bird than the petite 1st-cycle, nearly as big as the Herring Gulls.
I have put a few photos at the end of http://picasaweb.google.com/KevinJ.McGowan/Birds2011. Kevin -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
