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Subject: [SBB] Franklin's-type Gull at Shoreline
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Hi SB Birders

After a day of birding around the bay area (under full sun) my powers of 
perception were somewhat dimished by 5pm. But I finished at Shoreline, where there 
may be a Franklin's Gull in the vicintiy of the tidal basin across from the 
pumphouse, north of the San Antonio parking lot. The bird is an immature, 
somewhere between 1st winter and 1st summer. It has the dark, but smudgy, crown, 
nape, and side of head, enclosing a rather noticeable white eyering. The bill is 
all black, between Laughing and Bonapartes in size. Underparts nearly all 
white. The tails is white with a thin black terminal band. Inflight wing pattern 
not like Bonapartes adult or imm. Actually not much of any pattern. Black 
primaries with small amount of white. Legs were covered with mud. Most of the time 
it was in the tidal basin along the levee, within 500 feet of the wooden 
observation deck. It landed in Charleston Slough once.There was a 1st summer or 
adult Bonapartes, acquiring the black hood, in the area. The last Franklins I 
saw in CA was an imm at SVWPCP back in '95 or so and the Shoreline bird is a 
good match of it. So if anyone at Shoreline sees such a bird please report it, 
whether you think it's Franklins or not.

Thanks and good birding,
Dave Weber
Milpitas.
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