On 7/4/2011 10:39 AM, Byers wrote:
>
> Hi Tweeters,
>
> Bill and I did an early 4^th of July walk at Discovery
> Park this morning. Among a group of about 30 gulls on the beach north
> of the Lighthouse was a breeding plumaged Heerman's Gull. (We got
> pictures.) At first I wasn't even sure what it was because I've never
> seen a Heerman's in breeding plumage and certainly never in our area
> in July.
>
> Cheers, Charlotte Byers, Seattle
>
>
I was also surprised yesterday when I saw a breeding plumage Heerman's
gull at the ferry dock on Whitby Island.

Tina Klein-Lebbink
Bellevue, Wa