Try as I might, the photos I took of this morning's Clatsop Beach Gull seem to pretty clearly show a Bonaparte's Gull molting from juvenile to 1st basic and any real darkness in the underwings was a trick of the tricky fog-dense light. All of which vanishes with the appropriate jiggering of the dials in photoshop.... -- Mike Patterson Astoria, OR String Theory http://www.surfbirds.com/community-blogs/northcoastdiaries/?p=2182 OBOL archives: www.freelists.org/archive/obol Manage your account or unsubscribe: //www.freelists.org/list/obol Contact moderators: obol-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx