This morning at the Cornell compost on Stevenson Road I saw a gull that I believe I also saw up on the hill on Saturday but did not get a definitive look at. It looks to me to be a classic GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL X HERRING GULL hybrid, but I welcome comments from others. It has a mantle of perfectly intermediate darkness between Herring and Great Black-backed, pale pink legs (ruling against a bulky Lesser Black-backed). It also seems to lack the white subterminal spots of a Slaty-backed Gull, although the state of the wingtips makes it hard to be sure.
One photo here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaymcgowan/15746345457/in/photostream/ And eBird list with more photos: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S20756612 -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
