Florence has a bunch of the scruffo 2Y California Gulls too. Seems like way
more than usual; some of them have been here through June.
We were surprised to see at least five nice crisp young Californias at Flor on
Saturday. Seems a couple of weeks early for those.
Alan Contreras
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Eugene, Oregon
www.alanlcontreras.com
On Jul 8, 2019, at 5:56 PM, larspernorgren <larspernorgren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
To judge from eBird there was an abundance of wingless dippers at Ona Beach
yesterday(Sun7/7). Only duck at South Jetty was an adult male Surf Scoter. 4
Western Grebes there this PM, and a juvenile Brown Pelican which flew in from
the ocean turned around and left before making it to the bridge. I saw none
yesterday.
All 29 gulls at the very dry gull puddle about 4pm today were
Californias. Two adults and all the rest super ratty 2nd calendar year birds.
Many have a pretty pink bill with a crisp black tip. Their ancient, bleached
primaries are often all but white. They are way too small to be Glaucous
gulls.
70 odd gulls on a falling tide at the shelter on the nature trail at
HMSC last night included 2 adult Westerns, one adult Ring-billed, five to ten
adult Californias, also more than a handful but less than two handfuls of
juvenile Californias---real hatchyear birds. The rest were the ratty two year
olds. One Whimbrel and two Greater Yelllowlegs at the Ferry Slip. Four Least
Sandpipers visited the gull flock at Hatfield last night.
Very low tide this morning and very high right now(5:55pm). 13 peeps
tried to land repeatedly at the shelter. Silent, l'm pretty sure they were
Leasts, flummoxed by the belly deep flood.
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