A Little Birding
Having bicycled through Chatfield State Park, I know where there are a number of good places to spot birds - especially water birds which I find interesting. Heather and I drove over there today to see what we could find and we found plenty. Unfortunately, the battery on our digital camera pooped out so we couldn't get pictures of the pelicans or the grebes or a number of other birds that we saw.
Cormorants and Canadian geese were plentiful and so were coots and gulls. Also saw mallard ducks and some mergansers. We even saw some shovelers but they were too far out to get a clear picture. Here are some pictures we did take:
Killdeer
Dowitcher
What kind of gull is this? (Ring Billed Gull? Herring Gull?)
What kind of gull is this?
posted by cajrrman @ 9:59 PM
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top bird looks like 3rd winter herring gull. (a juvenile)
bottom bird also a herring gull..approaching maturity.(but still a juvenile)
juvenile gulls are difficult to identify, even for experienced birders, so kudos to you for coming up with the herring gull possibility.
ring bill gulls have yellowish legs, which would rule out these birds being such.
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