Denny, Clever dude, but a wee bit of an insult to one who can spend
uncounted hours at gulls. Remember, those with a terminal disease can't help
themselves!
Andy


>At 12:07 PM 11/15/96 -0800, you wrote:
>>Dear Tweeters,
>>
>>That old poem about "Thirty day hath September, ..." and the counting on
>>one's knuckles worked pretty well to help me recall which months had 30
>>days in them. Does anyone know of a similar little rhyming ditty, or
>>other mnemonic device, to help remember the various leg colors, bill
>>colors and dot colors, etc, of the various gulls?
>>
>>Bob Mauritsen
>>rhm at ms.washington.edu
>>
>Here's one from an eastside birder who only sees gulls a few times a year:
>
>Black wingtips hath the Herring Gull,
>Black wingtips hath the California Gull,
>Black wingtips hath the Ring-billed Gull,
>Black wingtips hath the Mew Gull,
>Black wingtips hath the Thayer's Gull,
>Black wingtips hath the Western Gull,
>Black wingtips hath the Bonaparte's Gull,
>Black wingtips hath the Franklin's Gull,
>Black wingtips hath the Glaucous-winged-Western Hybrid,
>Black wingtips hath the Black-legged Kittiwake.
>
>I would suppose this expresses the feeling of many birders towards gulls.
>
>Denny Granstrand
>Yakima, WA
>
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