ML378621401

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

One was probably a Seward Gull, but I am changing it on 4/18/23 to Larus spuh as the photos keep getting flagged, probably as a bleached GWGU. Notes; A first-cycle Seward Gull perched on building a across from the Elk Club parking area full of RVs. It was frequently flying down and eating bread that people were throwing at the gulls. It is larger than a California Gull and about the same size as a Western Gull. It is a very pale pearly white, the same exact shade as a first-cycle Glaucous Gull, and lighter than the bleached Glaucous-winged Gulls surrounding it. It has pink legs, a dark eye, and Primaries that are the same shade as the mantle. In flight, this gull appears to be a Pure Glaucous Gull, and when I first saw it in my bins that's what I thought it was. The bill is mostly pink, with a black tip and a sizable amount of black running down the middle. This gull resembles a Glaucous Gull in many ways, but the bill is in between that of a Glaucous and a Glaucous-winged Gull's bill. Glaucous Gulls always have strongly bicolored bill's in their first cycle, so it must be a Hybrid. A really neat bird that gave awesome looks!

Technical information

Model

E-M1MarkII

Lens

OLYMPUS M.75-300mm F4.8-6.7 II

ISO

200

Focal length

187 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/6.0

Shutter speed

1/2000 sec

Dimensions

4758 pixels x 3366 pixels

Original file size

10.93 MB