Subject: [Tweeters] Ft. Canby Franklin's Gull
Date: Aug 31 00:23:49 2009
From: Randy Robinson - rwr.personal at gmail.com


There was a juvenile Franklin's Gull on the ocean beach at Ft. Canby State
Park on Saturday, Aug. 29. It was 150 yds north of the jetty roosting with
about 200 pink-legged, California and Heermann's Gulls. I saw it at about
10:45 am and watched it for about 20 minutes until a family with young kids
and a dog flushed the flock.

It was much smaller than the adjacent California Gulls with gray-brown upper
parts and white underneath. The head was white with a solid band of brown
across the back half of the head. The band also extended to the face around
the eyes. There was a very prominent, white, incomplete ring around each
eye. The legs were dark.

Randy Robinson
Seattle WA
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