Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) (1)
- Reported Jan 29, 2025 17:03 by Doug Gochfeld
- Brooklyn Bridge Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6996104,-73.9973745&ll=40.6996104,-73.9973745
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S211210133
- Comments: "*very rare. Perhaps the first park record. Juvenile at the marina. Smallish GLGU, a bit smaller than the GBBGs, but towering over the surrounding RBGUs when it was perched on the docks. Milky/cappucino aspect with pale wingtips, smallish eye, and extensively pink-based bill with black tip (pink/black border not exactly vertical, but pretty close). First seen at 17:30, sitting on the water, where it looked mostly like a Glaucous Gull, except that it looked a bit rounder-headed, and seemed comparable in size to the RBGUs it was floating near, leading to initial confusion on the ID. Once it perched on the end of one of the long docks, in the company of the three common species of winter gull that occur here, that confusion vanished, as it was clearly a Glaucous. Digiscoped
- Reported Jan 29, 2025 17:03 by Doug Gochfeld
- Brooklyn Bridge Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6996104,-73.9973745&ll=40.6996104,-73.9973745
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S211210133
- Comments: "*very rare. Perhaps the first park record. Juvenile at the marina. Smallish GLGU, a bit smaller than the GBBGs, but towering over the surrounding RBGUs when it was perched on the docks. Milky/cappucino aspect with pale wingtips, smallish eye, and extensively pink-based bill with black tip (pink/black border not exactly vertical, but pretty close). First seen at 17:30, sitting on the water, where it looked mostly like a Glaucous Gull, except that it looked a bit rounder-headed, and seemed comparable in size to the RBGUs it was floating near, leading to initial confusion on the ID. Once it perched on the end of one of the long docks, in the company of the three common species of winter gull that occur here, that confusion vanished, as it was clearly a Glaucous. Digiscoped
"
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued."
"Dust of Snow",-Robert Frost
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued."
"Dust of Snow",-Robert Frost
