Pics of the Duluth Little Gull are up at http://198.174.119.50/tmp/20030518/index.html
In the group shots with Bonaparte's, it's the bird in the lower right foreground, except for the bottom flight shot with the Bonaparte's. In that one, the background bird is (obviously) the Little. The light is so flat in the photos that it's hard to see, but the legs really were a bright red shade like adult Bonaparte's leg color in the field. I read what Tony Hertzel recently wrote about Little in first-winter plumage at this time of year, but I can't see that this bird has yet molted into first-summer. I'm far from well-versed in gull molt, though, so if anyone sees any signs of molt or first-summer plumage characteristics, please clue me in. Chris ===== Chris Mansfield Richfield, Hennepin Co. MN [email protected] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
