[obol] First juvenal Heerman's Gull

[Alan Contreras]

There was a single juvenal Heermann's at Florence on Sunday 23rd.  They remind me of a chocolate Thayer's because of the even patterning, but they are a lot like a Cal in shape. Mostly adults otherwise.


-----Original Message-----
>From: "David C. Bailey" <baileydc at pdx.edu>
>Sent: Jul 26, 2006 1:12 PM
>To: Oregon Birders Online <obol at lists.oregonstate.edu>
>Subject: [obol] First juvenal Heerman's Gull
>
>The HEERMAN'S GULLS are staging daily on the apartment roofs and in the 
>Necanicum River at the east end of my street (Avenue I in Seaside, 
>Clatsop Co.) again this year. Yesterday something flushed them while I 
>was in my yard and there were suddenly upwards of 100 of them sailing 
>above my home. Today I went down to the river and saw that a juvenal 
>(hatch year) bird had joined the throng--the first I have seen this 
>year. While I have been seening 1st summer birds for weeks now, this 
>feathers of this bird's plumage were all neatly edged in pale giving the 
>bird a very handsome look, like a very dark juvenal California Gull. 
>These birds should be increasing through the next month or so.
>
>David
>
>David C. Bailey
>Seaside, Oregon
>baileydc at pdx.edu
>
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Alan Contreras - Eugene, Oregon