Subject: Glaucous Gull, Vancouver BC 1/15/96
Date: Jan 16 09:35:55 1996
From: Michael Price - mprice at mindlink.bc.ca
Hi Tweets,
Last evening, out of the Mindlink office window, I watched approx. 6,000
gulls fly upriver along the Fraser River at New Westminster in their
customary fly-by to their as-yet undiscovered roost site.
In the flock were 2 Glaucous Gulls: a basic 2-plumaged bird and a
darker-bodied basic 1 bird with startlingly white primaries. Also in the
flock as it streamed past, occasionally building towering kettles over the
buildings on the opposite side of the road, were an adult dark-mantled gull
and approx. 150 Herring Gulls, mostly adults (a high number for the Greater
Vancouver Checklist Area), the remainder being Glaucous-winged Gulls with
an indeterminate number of Thayer's (too similar to GWGU in flight).
Cheers,
Michael Price "Are you being brilliant or are you going berserk?
Vancouver BC Canada At first, sometimes, it may be hard to tell."
mprice at mindlink.net -New York Times headline