Lots of gulls (roughly 700) were still at Jackson Lake this morning (Saturday), feeding with the grebes and cormorants and then resting on the north side of the lake. As I arrived, a large, very pale, dark-billed gull (first impression Glaucous-Winged or Glaucous-Winged x Herring, but I don't know) flew by, turned, and then was outta there. Otherwise, I found 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 1 first-year Thayer's Gull, Herring, California, Franklin's, Bonaparte's, and Ring-billed Gulls. No sign of the Iceland Gull.
-- Although I didn't see a gull that looked quite like the candidate Western Gull from Monday, I've decided to leave Monday's gull as unidentified. Observing gulls today was a good reminder at how difficult it is to observe the relevant characteristics at great distance for the breeding-plumage dark-mantled gulls.
David Dowell
Longmont, CO
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