Kelp Gull
An apparent adult Kelp Gull found at Brownsville landfill this morning.

Landfill access as below.

An apparent adult Kelp Gull found at Brownsville landfill this morning.

Landfill access as below.

Thanks to Terry for letting me know about this Red-necked Phalarope at Hornsby. I re-found it at noon today.
This dude was apparently briefly in Texas. NPR Article
We dipped on the Henslows yesterday in the wind (I shall return!!), but Lance, Flo and I had a good day hunting through Aggie land marshes and sod farms. Highlights: Great looks at colorful swamp, song, Leconte’s and Savannah sparrows and poor looks (through cameras and hand held scope) of a handful of very distant…
Lance and I seem to have a tradition of close encounters of the peregrination kind on our gull scouting expedition to galveston and vicinity!! This was point blank at Texas City Dike. It was also nice to run into Cin-ty lee at this stop and tell him how much I appreciate his and Andrew Birch’s…
Today’s Birds of the Bolivar Peninsula reminder is on Ibis.
Saw a post for this gulls book by Fred Shaffer III and so immediately bought myself a xmas present It’s less dense than all of the other gull books I own and has nice short description and good comparison photos of NA gulls. It doesn’t show all the variations, but for your basic gull book…