Thank you for confirming my confusion on this one! I'll have to go back today with charged batteries and hope for some good luck!
Hope more people go out to confirm... Cheers, Steve Rash, Denver, CO On Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 7:36:45 AM UTC-6, Cole Sage wrote: > > Gull currently at pelican point. Taking many pictures. > > Cole Sage, Denver > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 6:54 AM Johnson, Candice E., MD. < > candice...@childrenscolorado.org <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Reply to Steve Rash. Yes, it does look like a Kelp Gull. My husband and >> I spent 20 minutes staring at a very dark black-mantled gull through our >> scope yesterday around 1pm.He was standing in shallow water, but we saw >> yellowish legs when he finally scratched his head. We reported it as a >> Lesser Black-backed Gull, but we were very troubled by the complete lack of >> streaking on the head and neck and by the very black mantle. It had a pure >> white head. Also, the size was about 50% larger than the nearby Ring-billed >> Gulls, which is not consistent with a Lesser Black-backed Gull at 21 >> inches. Sadly, no photos. Some gull expert needs to go to Pelican Point. >> Candice Johnson, Denver >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for >> the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain confidential and >> privileged information. If you are not an intended recipient, or the >> person responsible for delivering this message to an intended recipient, >> you are hereby notified that reading, copying, using or distributing this >> message is prohibited. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact >> the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message >> from your computer system. >> ------------------------------ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Colorado Birds" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to cob...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CY4PR13MB1670F6D4EA90D5C183A2C866E1890%40CY4PR13MB1670.namprd13.prod.outlook.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CY4PR13MB1670F6D4EA90D5C183A2C866E1890%40CY4PR13MB1670.namprd13.prod.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/dc354a97-8dd8-4b5b-a104-cd733865b716%40googlegroups.com.
