----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruth Sullivan" <godwit513 at comcast.net>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 6:10 PM
Subject: LOOKING FOR THE Franklin Gull today on Commencement Bay


> Hello Tweeters,
> I birdied the area today where the Franklin's Gull was sighted.Running in
> to Carol Schulz,who had this last Gull book with the Gull on the front of
> this Book,.I did not have this book ,but in the Gulls North America Europe
> and Asia there have not this all brown plumage in.It is amazing how many
> different bird books one must have.But to my knowledge ,and I have least 6
> sighting of this species but never in the juvenile plumage.So I have to
> get this Gullbook.On the Log Boom there where about 250 Bonaparte's gulls
> &some coming from the point Defiance side flying in plus 5 Common
> Terns,what was for me the first of the season.As Marcus mention about all
> the other Gulls,make this place really exiting to watch.We would not
> missed the Franklin
> Gull,this bird would be stand out in this plumage,But also we saw over
> thousand's Gulls across the waters flying always up,this Gull could be
> easy went to the other side of the Bay.I have in my big Gull Book 1 photo
> first winter bird,what comes not even close to the other new Gull book
> where this bird is light brown all over,never with all my many sightings
> and always photos that ever saw this Franklin Gull in this plumage.
>
> Cheers Ruth Sullivan.