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Iceland Gull in Montgomery

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Mary Ann Todd

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Maryland Birds & Birding

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Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:19:56 EST

At 4:15PM on Sat. a 2nd basic Iceland (Kumlien's) Gull stopped at the Rt. 121 
bridge at Little Seneca Reservoir, but it stayed only a few minutes. This is 
the third different plumaged Iceland Gull at the lake this winter.

At 4PM an adult Lesser Black-backed dropped in for a few minutes. It also did 
not hang around.

One of the Common Goldeneyes was in a plumage I did not understand. Basically 
like a female Common Goldeneye, but with the breast strikingly white and with 
extensive white on the scapulars, forming white patch along the upper body. I 
wondered if it could be a young male in transition, but there was no white 
coming in between the bill and the eye, and there was a fair amount of yellow on 
the bill. I can find no reference to young males having yellow on the bill 
(Birds of the Western Palearctic mentions an olive band on juvenile bills.) I'm 
now wondering if it was a leucistic female Common Goldeneye.

Dave Czaplak