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Dec. 2, 2006 Black Dog Lake (east lake) 3:45-5:00pm The ice-man cometh and I saw my first white-winged gulls for the season. From the power plant I estimated a maximum of 2500 gulls. Mostly Herring and Ring-billed, of course, but also: Four Glaucous Gulls: -Adult w/ dusky head - probable 3rd winter (based on amount of gray feathers in mantle and 2-toned bill) -2nd winter (pure white w/ 2-toned bill and no duskiness visible) -1st winter (nicely patterned dusky bird w/ 2-toned bill) One well patterned, classic 1st winter Iceland Gull (Kumlien's) about 3/5ths size of Herring Gulls. Also, another 1st or 2nd cycle white-winged gull at long distance that was size of smallest Herring Gulls but appeared to have an all dark bill and somewhat angular head. Possibly another Glaucous. At least 3 adult Thayer's Gulls, but no immatures (and I looked over many dark gulls). I tended to not look very hard for this species, but my gut tells me there were several present. I saw no dark mantled gulls. The gulls were pouring in when I left at 5:00pm, so no telling what other gems are out there. Did I mention it was cold? Jim ------=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <HTML style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2995" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <P> <DIV>Dec. 2, 2006 </DIV> <DIV>Black Dog Lake (east lake)</DIV> <DIV>3:45-5:00pm</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The ice-man cometh and I saw my first white-winged gulls for the season. From the power plant I estimated a maximum of 2500 gulls. Mostly Herring and Ring-billed, of course, but also:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Four <STRONG>Glaucous Gulls:</STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-Adult w/ dusky head</DIV> <DIV>- probable 3rd winter (based on amount of gray feathers in mantle and 2-toned bill)</DIV> <DIV>-2nd winter (pure white w/ 2-toned bill and no duskiness visible)</DIV> <DIV>-1st winter (nicely patterned dusky bird w/ 2-toned bill)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>One well patterned, classic 1st winter <STRONG>Iceland Gull</STRONG> (Kumlien's) about 3/5ths size of Herring Gulls.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Also, another 1st or 2nd cycle white-winged gull at long distance that was size of smallest Herring Gulls but appeared to have an all dark bill and somewhat angular head. Possibly another Glaucous.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>At least 3 adult <STRONG>Thayer's Gulls</STRONG>, but no immatures (and I looked over many dark gulls). I tended to not look very hard for this species, but my gut tells me there were several present.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I saw no dark mantled gulls. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The gulls were pouring in when I left at 5:00pm, so no telling what other gems are out there. Did I mention it was cold?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jim</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8--
