Carol - the gull showed up yesterday right off from the sailboat dock at the
north end of Coulon. As Charlie said, it didn't show up until 5:35 or 5:40;
a woman I was birding with had just given up and was 100 feet up the trail
back to her car when I saw THE BIRD. Luckily I was able to call her back.
We had less than 5 minutes before it was too dark to distinguish any
differences in mantle colors between gulls.

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland, WA
== http://www.scn.org/fomp/birding.htm
== birdmarymoor at verizon.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Schulz" <linusq at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Slaty-backed Gull


> Hi Tweeters:
> Congratulations to Charlie Wright who has chased this nemesis bird for
> many years! It turns out that many very-good birders in our area have
> never seen a Slaty-backed Gull. I found that out last week when we
> unsuccessfully sought the gull at Coulon Park, and everyone booed me off
> the dock which is north of Ivar's when I admitted that I had seen one
> before. (But it was always through a scope at great distance.) I think I
> was the only one there who had seen one before.
> Is this bird being seen best from the Coulon Park sail-boat basin, which
> is at the far north end turn-around in the park?
> Yours, Carol Schulz
> DesMoines