From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Wed Dec 1 10:01:56 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iB1HxGjp019663 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:59:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-m26.mx.aol.com (imo-m26.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.7]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iB1Hw3VC019615 for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:58:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-m26.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id t.e1.7acf1c8 (4184) for <[[email protected]]>; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:57:55 -0500 (EST) From: [[email protected]] Message-ID: <[[email protected]]> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:57:55 EST To: [[email protected]] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5b1 Subject: [SBB] First winter Glaucous Gull, some advice X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5b1 Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] All, Sorry about the late post but yesterday morning (11/30) Dean Manley, Frank Vanslager and I first located the first winter GLAUCOUS GULL in the Palo Alto Yacht Harbor mud flats near the parking lot for the Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Interpretive Center. It later flew to the "duck pond" where we had extreme close-up views as it approached to be fed. This bird is by far the darkest first winter GLGU that I, with my limited west coast experience, have ever seen. The bird is even a bit darker than the dark first winter GLGU shown in Kaufman's "Birds of North America." Best thing to do is to look for the bill with it's pink base and black tip (clean separation of the two colors) and it does have essentially pure white primaries. When it flies it's true size becomes apparent as it was clearly the largest gull there. A very heavy, wide bodied, looking gull. A great opportunity to see a rare gull up close. Not to be missed. Take care, Bob Reiling _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]