The 1st winter Cal Gull was present on Lake Calhoun at about 5PM Wed. It pretty much looks like the 1st winter bird shown in Sibley. I did not see it flying..but the thin pink bill with a clean black tip makes it fairly easy to pick out of all the Herring Gulls Warren Woessner
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Fall Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 11:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [mou] California Gull, L. Calhoun On 31 October (4:00-5:00 p.m., overcast) and 2 November (4:50-5:20=20 p.m., clear) I observed a 1st-winter California Gull among the several=20 hundred Herring and Ring-billed gulls swimming and roosting on the west=20 side of Lake Calhoun (Minneapolis). The California Gull was with the=20 mostly Herring Gull subgroup nearer the west shore (as close as 150 m).=20 If you find the CAGU, please document it--thus far I lack information=20 on wing or tail pattern in flight. Also present both days was a=20 1st-winter Thayer's Gull, and on 2 Nov. only, 1 adult Lesser=20 Black-backed Gull and 6 adult Bonaparte's Gulls. Bruce A. Fall Minneapolis _______________________________________________ mou-net mailing list [email protected] http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net
