[texbirds] Re: California Gull Credit correction.....
- From: Monte <monte.phillips@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 13:07:55 -0600
It was Arman Moreno who sent me that size tip. Sorry for the
oversight. THANK YOU Arman
On 1/6/2014 1:05 PM, Monte wrote:
> 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
--
Monte
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain
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