FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Anderson County gull

["Carole Gobert" <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This afternoon, Monday, January 3, around noon on the upper pond at the 
Eagle Bend Fish Hatchery in Clinton, Anderson County, Tennessee, among the 
hundreds of ring billed gulls there was a larger gull.  I believe it was 
either a first winter herring gull or possibly a first winter lesser black 
backed gull.  It had a black bill (a heavier bill than the ring bills) and 
was noticeably larger than them.  Though the coloring looked more like a 
herring gull (I was looking at Sibley's) it seemed to me that the size was 
more consistent with lesser black backed, but it was probably a herring 
gull.

That was the most interesting bird I saw there.  There continue to be lots 
of coots, buffleheads, Mallards, Canada Geese and a couple ring neck ducks 
and a great blue heron.

Carole Gobert
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee


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