Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:37:19 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Phil Davis Subject: Re: odd gull In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 04:53 PM 12/30/2001 -0500, Hans Holbrook wrote: >12/28/01 (snip) >Jim Brighton joined me for the morning, since Bob had a speaking >appointment. We went to 4th Street to look at Skimmer Island. There we >found an odd gull. The bird had a yellow bill with large red spot and a >very small black one. Head and neck were streaked, heavier around the >eye. Eye was light colored. Dark gray mantle, white tail and PINK >LEGS! I was stunned. We watched the bird for well over an hour as it >walked around. The bird was equel size to the herring gulls, although >maybe slight bit more slender. great black-backs and ring-bills were >present too. The bird spent alot of time preening so we had a while to >study it. The black on the wing tips was very limited and through the >underneath of the wing we both saw windows in the primaries. > >The bird was an adult bird, both Jim and I are sure what it wasn't. But >if anyone has any input please e-mail me. Hans - FYI ... see the message below from January 2000 ... any chance this might be the same (or a similar one)? Phil