Thank you Ruth! To add to this, the gull was on about the sixth log from the
front and close to the right hand corner of the big boom of new logs. It
started preening and we had great looks at all field marks. It definitely
has shorter legs than the California Gulls and the silhouette is almost
tern-like.

Good birding!

Hans Feddern

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Ruth Sullivan <godwit513 at comcast.net>wrote:

> Hello Tweeters,
> Like always every day I looking for the Black-tailed Gull.But today no own
> found the bird yet,and birders left with out seeing this beauty.It was not
> to 3,45 PM today that I intensely looked at the new spot where he been
> sighted since yesterday afternoon.
> Right across from the new spot for Dick Gilmoore park.where in the past the
> big ship was standing ,and all the many logs are.The bird was on the highest
> log resting between 2 logs.he looked again a bit darker than the nearby
> California Gulls,but sitting down
> and not seeing the whole bird what is really giving me the clue the darker
> hood in the back of his head.I looked a long time before I saw lifting his
> head so I could see the yellow with a subterminal Bar,but I had first
> problem to see the bright red tip,and looking with my Eyeglasses on.The
> distance is quite to far for this fieldmark.But when Matthew Bartels and
> Tina looked there saw not only the RED TIP,but got treaded to see the Black
> tail with the small white trailing edge.It was also yesterday that the Gull
> was sighted in the late afternoon.Also to mention are the bright Yellow Legs
> even in the far distance.Looking the Gull from the side in profile he seems
> shorter legged
>
> Cheers Ruth Sullivan
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