[texbirds] Re: Lesser Black-backed Gull in Smith county today
- From: Mike Bloodsworth <bloodsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 19:07:53 -0800 (PST)
Here is the best photo I was able to get of the LBBG found first by Eamonn
Thurmond and Peter Barnes on Pleasure Acres Lake in Smith County this morning.
Long distance and poor lighting made photos difficult.
Mike Bloodsworth
Tyler
http://mikeintyler.smugmug.com/Nature/Most-Recent/i-R5bkXGH/0/O/122_edited-1.jpg
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>This morning, Eamonn Thurmond and I found a winter adult Lesser
>Black-backed Gull, *graellsii *subspecies, on Pleasure Acres Lake in Smith
>County. This is in Chapel Hill, east of Tyler. The bird was in the water in
>a flock of 400 Ring-billed Gulls. It was quite distant and a scope is
>necessary to see the bird well. It was too far away for me to get photos,
>but Mike Bloodsworth saw it later and he may post photos if they come out.
>The bird was larger than the Ring-billed Gulls, with a longer, heftier
>yellow bill, with red on the distal lower mandible. The back of the head
>was streaked with brown, the back was medium slate-gray, much darker than
>that of the Ring-billed Gulls. The legs were not visible and it was too
>distant for us to tell the eye color. This is the first record for Smith
>county, as far as I know.
>On CR 2133 east of Whitehouse, we had FOS 50 Rusty Blackbirds in a swampy
>area by the road.
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>Peter Barnes
>Tyler
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