Franklin's Gull (breeding plumage in Jan?!), fotos, Pueblo County

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Steve Getty

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Jan 17, 2019, 8:46:05 PM1/17/19
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COBirders,

 

Linda Hodges, Tyler Stuart, and I had a breeding plumage Franklin’s Gull soaring, passing over us at the Osprey picnic area at Pueblo Res. before lunch. Very distinctive wing-tip pattern per any other gulls with black heads. It’s intriguing to think of a “spring” molt in early January, wherever it was, and then movement, nudgings northward (presumably).   

 

Tyler then re-found later amongst the Ring-billed and a few Herrings at the Valco pond (north), also hosting a Trumpeter Swan today. Far fotos below. Jim Merritt and David Tønnessen, and then some very friendly birders from Pueblo also saw.     

 

Cordially,

Steve Getty, Colorado Springs

 

 

 


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