Just a quick note, don't have time to go into more detail, but among the gulls at the compost today were a 2nd-cycle type GLAUCOUS (all plain white), two nice frosty 1st-cycle ICELAND, and a darker Iceland-type that may well have been a 1st-cycle THAYER'S, although I thought it looked on the pale end at the time.
Photos here, although a little washed out: https://plus.google.com/photos/111137855303614931880/albums/5954443926503892769/5978584978027729938?pid=5978584978027729938&oid=111137855303614931880 And here is a link to Garrett MacDonald's photos: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S16862556 At East Shore in the afternoon Dave and Gary had a young Glaucous and I picked out a nice adult Iceland on the ice. -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --