Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:20:43 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Ralph Wall Subject: Re: Strange Gull MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/12/2002 12:26:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, rossgull@CROSSLINK.NET writes: > Black-tailed Gull seems unlikely based on your overall description as that > is a smaller bird, with a quite dark upper back, But then the observer thought at first it might be a California Gull which is smaller than a Herring, and while the mantle of the Black-tailed Gull is a darker shade of gray than that of a Herring Gull, i.e., not black, lighting conditions can come into play. That said, I agree, it probably was a Herring Gull in some state of maturation. Ralph Wall Great Falls, VA ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================