Stopped at lake Bylessby yesterday afternoon and found an interesting gull.
The gull appeared to be slightly larger than the Herring Gulls it was associating with. It appeared to be a first year bird with pure white head and mottled beige plummage. Wingtips were light dirty brown. The wing tips looked to light for a Herring, but too dark for a Glaucous Gull. Bill was tipped with black. Shorebirds: Pectoral Sandpipers: 26 G. Yellowlegs 3 L. Yellowlegs 3 Killdeer Other birds of note: Hermit Thrush - cooperative bird that I was able to share with a group of Cub Scouts Loggerhead Shrike - pair east of 140th Street Marsh, near the exit gate. Am. White Pelican - over 200 at Lake Bylessby Good var. of ducks at Bylessby, but nothing unusal. Steve Weston on Quigley Lake in Eagan swest...@comcast.net
