Subject: [Tweeters] Adult FRANKLIN'S GULL in Bellingham
Date: Jun 23 22:40:05 2005
From: VICJEN BURGETT - vicjenb at yahoo.com


Hello,
I photographed an adult-plumaged Franklin's Gull
amongst nesting and roosting Glaucous-winged Gulls on
the roof of one the Georgia-Pacific buildings facing
Bellingham Bay, at aprroximately 7:30 PM on thursday,
June 23. At the time I was enjoying the Whatcom
Museum sponsored history cruise of Bellingham Bay
(highly recommended!), thus providing the "from the
water" perspective of the rooftops. I will be happy
to email these images as attachments to anyone who
wishes to view them - while somewhat blurry, they are
definitive (I believe) for Franklin's as opposed to
Bonaparte's, Black-headed, or Laughing Gulls. Other
birds of interest seen on the two and a half hour
cruise included hundreds each of Double-crested
Cormorants and Caspian Terns, at least a dozen Pigeon
Guillemots in the Chuckanut Bay area, a pair of Black
Oystercatchers on Lion Rock adjacent to Chuckanut
Island (which I always thought was called Dot Island),
and at least a dozen male Harlequin Ducks in a "male
club" (the females are still nesting in the mountains)
around Chuckanut Rock.

Victor Burgett, Birch Bay, vicjenb at yahoo.com



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