Fellow Tweets --

Have any of you ever seen a Mew Gull with yellow eyes? I saw one yesterday
(before the storm), on a piling here in Port Townsend where MEGU habitually
hang out. I could swear it was a Mew: yellow legs, same yellow bill, same
mantle and wing pattern, same size, same jizz as the other four it was
with. The brownish/grayish markings on the head were a bit darker right at
the eye (but otherwise consistent with individual variation in this trait),
and you could see white "eyelids" as on some of the dark-hooded species. I
sketched it while I observed through my scope at 45X, from a distance of
about 45 yds. None of my references show any other possible species, nor do
they state that there is any variation in eye color in *this* species.

Is this an aberrant individual?

Thanks --

Janet Hardin
Port Townsend, WA
wings at olympus.net