[texbirds] Re: California Gull (?????????) the consensus is in...
- From: Monte <monte.phillips@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 13:05:41 -0600
First off, let me thank ALL of the many who responded. As I knew in the
back of my mind, but the imagination argued against. There are three
laughing gulls, one ring-billed, and of course the oyster catcher. I
was certain of the back ring-billed, and the front right Laughing...but
I just couldn't force my imagination to agree with my common sense on
those two left-hand Laughings.
Joe Fischer gave me a very good tip, that I completely was missing...the
size of the California would have been much larger, so I learned another
thing to look for more closely. My gull skills don't exist, so every
little bit helps.
On 1/6/2014 10:56 AM, Monte wrote:
> I was out on the Texas City Dike this AM to see if any birds were as
> dumb as myself and were out in the frigid wind. Run across the Oyster
> catchers, and in this pic a couple of gulls caufght my eye. They just
> didn't fit the ring-billed or laughing so tried to ID them. Closest
> thing I could come to was a mature non-breeding California Gull...am I
> completely off the mark?
> California Gulls ???
> <https://picasaweb.google.com/monte.phillips/OurBirdPicsCritters#5965825524123725986>
> --
> Monte Phillips
> Texas City
>
> It is easier to stay out than get out.
> Mark Twain
--
Monte
"We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then,
when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show
that we were right*. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process
for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false
belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield."
-- George Orwell
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