Hey Tweeets,
I checked out the Snow Goose flock on 212th. About 60 Snow Geese, LOTS of PINTAILS, CANADA GEESE, StARLINGS, and massive numbers of CROWS.
Also present, Mew and Glaucous-winged Gulls, a few Ring-billed gulls,

AND .... Could that be Bob again????

There was a 'white-winged' gull present. Beautiful pale gull, pure white wing-tips, light gray mantle. Smaller than the associated GLAUCOUS-WINGED Gulls, but larger than the Ring-billed gulls. The Bill was also intermediate in size, smaller and 'daintier' than the GW Gulls, but larger and more robust than the Ring-billed bills.

I hate to ask, and risk stirring this up again .. But is this bird a small GLAUCOUS Gull, or a large ICELAND Gull ??

I am going to hit my books tonight .. Any input (offline please) would be MOST appreciated!

Thanks!

Guy McWethy
Renton, WA
mailto: lguy_mcw at yahoo.com


--- On Tue, 12/30/08, Goodwin <ksgoodwin at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Goodwin <ksgoodwin at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Tweeters] Geese - Flock of white geese with black on tail
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 12:46 PM
> There is a flock of about 50-100 small white geese in a
> field in Kent.? They can be seen?on the north side
> of?212th?SE at 59th.? These geese have a little black on
> the back of the tail.? Not sure if they are snow geese or
> not.? I've seen them there Dec 28, 29, and today Dec
> 30.?
>
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