April 12, 2004
hybrid gulls pt 1
Just spent about an hour posting these photos cuz i don't really know what i'm doing here yet and windows collapsed just before i saved it. That's never really happened to me before actually, but i'm complaining anyway. Bill Gates you owe me 60 minutes of my life back you robber baron doofus bastard.
I have a few gull pictures that people might find of interest. Not normal people of course, but maybe Gull People. Here are a few shots of a "Nelson's Gull" that i found at Lake Nockamixon in Bucks Co, Pennsylvania on 22 Mar 2004. It's a hybrid of Glaucous Gull x arentatus Herring Gull. Nice chunky young bird, with that 'about to nod off' look typical of young Glaucous Gulls. Primaries are quite dark. It's seen here dwarfing a pair of Lesser Black-backed Gulls:
Here's a shot that's been cropped and brightened to show the sooty primaries. Again, sleepy lookin' and huge compared to a 2nd winter Lesser Black-backed:
Have more pics of a totally different strange gull, but it's now quite late so i'll have to get to it later...
Posted by brewbird at April 12, 2004 08:19 AM