I’m excited that “The Gull Guide” by Amar Ayash will be coming out next week!!! I bought mine some time ago!!
If you are a gull aficionado, or at least gull curious, you can listen to Amar discussing the book on 2 different podcasts recently.
And it just so happens that I had my first ring-billed of the season yesterday!!
I wanted to emphasize Allan’s post of yesterday on a new book by Bert Frenz Birds of the Central Oaks and Prairies of Texas with Emphasis on Historical Changes. Some of you may have heard Bert’s talk at TOS meeting in College Station a few years ago. I found it fascinating!!!! Here’s why (from another quote…
I enjoyed Cin Ty Lee’s presentation on Empids at TOS!! He’s got some good material on his website: http://www.cintylee.org/#/guiding-services/ I also notice that Butter Butt’s are scarfing down crushed pecans in the street in several locations.
Eric, Lance and I led the Shorebird Class to Corpus over the last weekend. I had a great time with highlights for me being: “That’s him!!!” (IDing the long-staying Glaucous Gull in mid-air at 65 mph on the JFK causeway), Identifying grass-pipers at the sod farms with the class at about ½ mile distant (definitely…
Gull #4 for yesterday Cedar Point. Can someone from 2024 class ID these gulls? Gull #4 Adult Herring. Pink feet, pulled taffy snout.
Amar Ayash is requesting new members for “North American Gulls”– you guys should sign up!!!
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…
