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> From: Ruth Sullivan <godwit at worldnet.att.net>
> To: tweeter at u.washington.edu
> Subject: SLATY-BACKED GULL:
> Date: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 7:53 PM
>
> Hello Tweeters,
> In the last two days (two hours each day) i been searching for the
> Slaty-backed Gull on theGog-Le-Hi-Te- in Tacoma.But i can not make any of
> this Gulls i been seeing in to one. There are realy many Gulls there now
> including Thayers 2 Northwest Western what are lighter in mantle than the
> southern Western,Glaucous-winged Hybrid , Mew Gulls at the lumber Yard,
and
> several Calfornia Gulls.On Monday evening i spotted on Gull who was
darker
> mantle , but the bill was to bright yellow the bird i had before had
light
> colour yellow bills verry pale. This bird seem dark when i looked in my
> Binoculars, but put the bird in to the Scope he was not that dark. I also
> noticed no fine streaking on head which can go down to the breast,(realy
> showing in my photos on the Gallery.) And than the Eye which have dark
> smudge in front of the Eye. As this bird got up(he was laying down he
> lifted his wings and i saw no white wing spots.Today i saw this Gull
again
> much closer so i had a chance to photograph this bird.The man at Meat
Plant
> came and ask me if i was looking for the Russian Gull again,he remember
it
> from years ago so many birders was looking to find this rare Gull. I hope
> the Slaty-backed Gull could be found, i was the only birder there to look
> for it.
>
> Ruth Sullivan
> Tacoma
> godwit at worldnet.att.net
>