ML616655045
Contributor
Kate Satterfield Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Jetty Near Marsh (33.527, -79.035)
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
I now think this is a 1st winter laughing gull. This bird did NOT strike me as a gull: it was larger but flew like a Forster's Tern, circling in acrobatics, hovering in one spot before tilting elsewhere. It repeated a territory on the "inland" side of the jetty, back and forth, and I tried to capture photos on multiple occasions, noting the brown coloration and the white tail with black on the end. I saw hundreds of laughing gulls that had molted to their breeding plumage, but I guess this one is a late bloomer--and a little of an odd-bird in behavior.
Technical information
- Model
- COOLPIX B600
- ISO
- 125
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- Dimensions
- 2078 pixels x 1548 pixels
- Original file size
- 396.82 KB