With egg on my face, I'm going to retract my Laughing Gull sighting. I now think it's a 1yr Franklins with a weak hood and dark underwings. I'm reminded of s saying one of my high school coaches used to say; If your not making mistakes, your not trying hard enough.
On Thursday, October 2, 2014 11:59:05 PM UTC-6, David Wade wrote: > > Hello Birders, > > I saw a first year Laughing Gull at Boyd Lake in Loveland today (Oct 2). > It was circling over the middle of the lake with a dozen or so Franklin's > Gulls. It's pointed wings and darker underwings made it stand out. I > managed to get some long distance photos, there's 6 total in the > photostream. > https://www.flickr.com/photos/122221383@N05/15238880960/ > > David Wade > Fort Collins, CO > -- 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 post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/fd20fe71-3e82-486c-bdbd-227d18f99017%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
