Tweeters,
I stopped by Kennedy Creek then Perry Creek around noon today to check out the gull scene. There are still enough decaying salmon (even a few live ones) at Perry Creek to draw a crowd. I estimated 85 Gulls at Kennedy Creek and 750 Gulls at Perry Creek. I was not able to find the gull that Joe Buchanan reported a couple of days ago, but there were two 1st Cycle Glaucous Gulls present. Each were quite different, one large and bulky with very white primaries and the other smaller, slimmer, and very crisply marked with some delicate markings in the primaries and tertials.

Perry Creek had a lot of gulls with the vast majority some version of Glaucous-winged. This location has had very little diversity (in the gull "species" world at least) this season. So finding a first cycle Glaucous and a 1st cycle Thayers in the group today was a nice surprise. Neither of these species were present yesterday or earlier in the week, or even any time in December that I had checked. There seems to be some new influxes recently. Both sites have a variety of shorebirds and waterfowl and seem quite productive.
Cheers and good birding,
Bill Shelmerdine
Olympia
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