Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:50:26 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Paul Woodward Subject: Re: East Potomac Park, DC, 1/26 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Scott, Sounds like a Ring-billed Gull in one of those very immature plumages that aren't often seen. General field guides can't show all plumage variations. Paul Woodward Fairfax City, VA 22032 grackling@worldnet.att.net > Among the common gulls was a Ring-billed sized and > shaped bird. It was mostly sitting on the ice near > the bridges. It had an all dark bill that looked > about Ring-billed sized, as not too thin or too heavy. > It had pinkish legs and a BLACK tail with some white > at the very edge of the outermost tail feathers. The > body and wings were brown with some gray (on the back? > darn, I can't remember?) and the head was white with > just some brown smudges mostly on the forehead, nape > and around the eye. A couple of other birders found > this gull and we were watching it for a long time. > Nothing pictured in the Sibley guide fits this bird. > When I see a bird like that it really shakes my > confidence in being able to ID anything. > > > S. Baron > Fairfax, Va. > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================