Herring Adult
Gull #4 for yesterday Cedar Point. Can someone from 2024 class ID these gulls?



Gull #4 Adult Herring. Pink feet, pulled taffy snout.
Gull #4 for yesterday Cedar Point. Can someone from 2024 class ID these gulls?



Gull #4 Adult Herring. Pink feet, pulled taffy snout.
Well I’ve been out gulling most days this week. Staying at my sister’s who lives near a favorite gull location on Lake Ray Hubbard. I’ve been looking for, and thought I’d found, variously Iceland gull (Thayers), California Gull, and today a great black backed gull. After review of bad digiscoped-through-the-fog-in-the-chill-breeze pix and videos and consultation…
Hearing tell of a Short-billed Gull at White Rock Lake, Lance and I conducted a stake-out this morning for a couple of hours. No luck on Shorty, but always a pleasure to study gulls — especially since I added two first of season gulls to my season list. (I forgot my camera in Austin so…
Warning: expect a quiz on this soon
Felt like I was at the coast this morning, but it was Cedar Point on Lake Buchanan. 13 species of shorebirds including both grasspipers and 4 Whimbrels (one of our elliptical migrants). 100s of peeps. 1 Flat-billed Flamingo (aka Spoonbill), yet another Tri-colored Heron and apparently a pretty high count (per ebird) of Avocets (51),…
One of these things is not like the other…..Ok recent gulls class, what do you see here? From Hornsby earlier this week.
Gulls class: given Jeff’s Texas Gulls Rule, can you ID this bird? Lake Balmorhea 11/18/22.