J B Churchill wrote: > >Rick Blom, (if you're reading this), do you have any idea what that >mystery gull is at Conowingo yet ??? Your description of it made me >think it was the same bird that I asked you to look at on Sunday (2/14) >that I thought might have been a young Thayers. Again, when you figure >it out ... John, My feeling is that the first-winter "mystery gull" that I described at Conowingo Dam was not a Thayer's Gull. There were just too many characters that did not fit. Was it a very pale Herring Gull?; a hybrid?; or some other species that I am not familiar with?; I just don't know. Gene Gene Scarpulla Towson, Maryland gscarp@erols.com