Hi tweets and Marvin,



Yesterday, Wendy and I were on the other side of the water at Browns Point
at about 1830 when a white gull with a bi-colored bill floated by on the
current. I called it a Glaucous Gull and when we got back to the car and
the Sibley confirmed it as a first-summer Glaucous . Unfortunately, I was
unable to see the pictures you took. My search engine was low on fuel, I
guess. You were intrepid to take that hike, and especially after a pelagic
trip. Bravo!



Good Birding, Alan Roedell, Seattle roedell at speakeasy.net



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[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Marvin S.
Hoekstra
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 1:24 PM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Tweeters] Glaucous Gull? X or XX Hybrid?



Tweeters gull experts, please give me your opinions on the lineage of a
recently photographed gull.



Yesterday in the final stretch of a pelagic birding tour at Westport-I
highly recommend this as a wonderful experience-Scott indicated he may have
had a brief look at a white gull with a bicolored bill on the Westport
Jetty. After disembarking I hiked out onto the jetty to have a look. I do
not recommend this if you are short of time-think 1 linear mile of fallen
down Great Wall of China bordered by surging saltwater, which water has also
generously donated a couple hundred largish logs to the pile. In any case I
spotted several white gulls, all swimming, of which one had what appears to
be a bicolored bill. The others, sadly, had black bills. Also seen out
there were at least three Wandering Tattlers, a shy bird recently
photographed in the same spot by Joe Higbee.



Attached is a link to a couple of photos. Pardon the lack of excellence.



http://flickr.com/photos/21019806 at N05/



Marvin S. Hoekstra

Sammamish, WA

marvin dot hoekstra at verizon dot net