Tweets and Washington Ornithological Society members:

This coming Monday, WOS is holding its monthly membership meeting.

Mike Donahue will give a talk on "Identification of Iceland and Thayer's Gulls:
Shades of Gray or a Red Herring?"

Iceland Gulls are being reported with increasing frequency on the west coast,
with 7 currently accepted records for Washington. Identification of birds in
the Iceland Gull/Thayer's Gull complex can be difficult, and out-of-range birds
often generate much discussion and controversy. Michael Donahue spent 5 days
this past January in Newfoundland, the premier place in North America for
studying large numbers of Iceland Gulls. He will share some of his slides of
Iceland and Thayer's Gulls, and review what is known about identifying these
two gulls in the field.

Monthly Membership Meetings are held the first Monday of the month (except
July, August, & September). They are held at the Center for Urban Horticulture
on the University of Washington campus, 3501 NE 41st St., Seattle, and are open
to all. The social begins at 7:00 p.m. and the program starts at 7:30 p.m.

Directions: From I-5 take SR520 East. Take the Montlake Blvd NE exit and turn
North towards the University of Washington campus. Stay in right lane and drive
North on Montlake Blvd (over the bridge and past the stadium). The road will
curve to the right around the Montlake Fill and merges with NE 45th St. You
will quickly approach a 5 way intersection. At the intersection turn right
onto Mary Gates Memorial Drive. The Center for Urban Horticulture is 2 long
blocks down on the right. There is plenty of free parking at the facility. We
use the main meeting room, the backside of which faces the road.

== Michael Hobbs
== Washington Ornithological Society webmaster
== http://www.wos.org
== WOSweb at wos.org