> Date:    Tue, 18 Mar 2003 15:15:51 -0800
> From:    steven siegel <oporornis@YAHOO.COM>
> Subject: Can someone help me with Shrimpie?
>
>     On Saturday, March 15, I drove to the Seabreeze
> Restaurant to see if "Shrimpie" might be there.
>      There was a dark-mantled gull on the dock, larger
> than the ring-bills. It had almost no white on the
> primary tips when it flew.  It had a black mark on the
> beak, and therefore seemed to be a sub-adult.  The
> legs were pink.  It was not a great black-backed, and
> the mantle was darker than I am used to seeing on a
> lesser.   Unfortunately, the four-year-old photo in
> the restaurant said that this bird wasn't Shrimpie.
>      After a superb lunch, another bird had appeared
> on the dock.  It was a bit larger, but not huge as I
> would expect of a great black-backed.  There was
> considerable white on the primary tips, just like a
> GBBG. The bird had pinkish legs (at certain angles
> they got a little greener, but it was a stretch!), and
> had a dark mark on the upper mandible above an orange
> gonydeal spot, so unless Shrimpie is getting younger,
> it wasn't him either.
>      My question is, has a western or slaty-backed
> popped up here?  When was Shrimpie last definitively
> seen?
>
> Steve Siegel
> Miami, FL

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