Stoshowicz's 52 2017

[Stoshowicz]

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[Marilynne]

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What is this stosh?

 

[Stoshowicz]

What is this stosh?

Its a Northern gannet , immature, and in an intermediate- odd- but normal state of plumage this time of year.

 

[Stoshowicz]

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[Roy1961]

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a ? plover?

 

[Stoshowicz]

Ruddy turnstone in off-season plumage , I think yours are black -where these are brown.
Hey Roy , could you do me a favor and post some nice pix of your gulls or pelagic birds somewhere , here if you like , so I can try to ID them ? for practice .

 

[Roy1961]

i will do when i see some, should get some at the weekend, will post them on here.

 

[Roy1961]

not good but the only gulls i saw and way up there.

 

[Roy1961]

neither but i dont have an id?

 

[Stoshowicz]

neither but i dont have an id?

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I thought your ID as american pipit was a good call , I dont have that one , and have been looking.
To me the gulls look like California gulls , but I need a closer look , I just cant tell yet , if you get any , at your leisure , I'd still like to see more.

 

[Roy1961]

lol i was going with a ring billed gull. i have a lot to learn. There was a "rare (to me)" gull up at San Jacinto, going 1st thing in the morning, hope i get to see it and really test you.

 

[Roy1961]

 

[Roy1961]

i have my guess what this is, lets see how far off i am. lol

 

[Stoshowicz]

i have my guess what this is, lets see how far off i am. lol

Youre supposed to tell me ! I guess herring gull.

 

[Stoshowicz]

lol i was going with a ring billed gull. i have a lot to learn. There was a "rare (to me)" gull up at San Jacinto, going 1st thing in the morning, hope i get to see it and really test you.

The browner one certainly isn't ring billed , the white one could potentially be , at least I cant see anything on it that would rule it out , so for that situation I think you dismiss rarities as unlikely.
What does your merlin app do with gulls?

 

[Stoshowicz]

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[Roy1961]

Youre supposed to tell me ! I guess herring gull.

it was a Herring gull, not i one i thought it was, its still out there to be snapped at a later date?

 

[Stoshowicz]

it was a Herring gull, not i one i thought it was, its still out there to be snapped at a later date?

Youve lost me, what rare species? Thayer's? , If so , the fairly dark pink legs on an adult bird , do suggest it . ( but the white mirror spots of the under-wing on the primary is a dot, rather than being white all the way out to the tip, unlike most herring gulls )

 

[Roy1961]

it was a Thayers, it pops up on ebird alert now and again, to me (the untrained eye) the Herring kinda looked like a Thayers, which i had never heard of before, is it common to you?