[texbirds] Re: Possible Thayer's/Iceland Gull - Fort Bend County

  • From: James Barnes <txbarnowl@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Texbirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 08:23:58 -0600

Yep, I hope you find it. A Thayer's would be very cool addition. Too bad I
missed the Smither's LBBG.
I definitely need to upgrade from my old Spacemaster.

Good luck



On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:53 PM, James Barnes <txbarnowl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> At Davis Estates Rd this morning while I was scoping 3 - 1st winter
> Herrings. Another large gull flew into my view that was overall very pale,
> much lighter than the herring's. Underside of wings were also very pale.
> The upper side of the wings, scapulars and mantle were a uniform pale
> brown. The tail was also as pale (same shade of brown) as the body. Not the
> very dark wingtips and tails of the herring's. I was not able to relocate
> the bird.
>
> There was also two other gulls that were sized between the herring's and
> ring-bill's. I suspect they were lesser black-blacks, but other than
> judging by size, they were too far out to positively ID with my old 22x
> scope.
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
> James Barnes
> Missouri City, Fort Bend, Texas
> 713.306.0116
>



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James Barnes
Missouri City, Fort Bend, Texas


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