stevethehydra
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1-3: Are any of these not Herring Gulls? And if not, why not?
4-7: I thought this was a good juxtaposition of a Common Gull and Herring Gull for comparison of structure and mantle shade (I don't tend to see these two sp. close together often - usually I see Common with Black-headed Gull if with any other species). Then the BHG came between them, and either this is a freakishly large Common Gull or a freakishly tiny Black-Headed! I don't think it's a zoom illusion, as to the naked eye the CG didn't seem more than a foot or so closer than the other two, and they were all around 100m away. There were other BHGs around, but they didn't come close enough for direct size comparison. Does this seem out of the ordinary to anyone else?
4-7: I thought this was a good juxtaposition of a Common Gull and Herring Gull for comparison of structure and mantle shade (I don't tend to see these two sp. close together often - usually I see Common with Black-headed Gull if with any other species). Then the BHG came between them, and either this is a freakishly large Common Gull or a freakishly tiny Black-Headed! I don't think it's a zoom illusion, as to the naked eye the CG didn't seem more than a foot or so closer than the other two, and they were all around 100m away. There were other BHGs around, but they didn't come close enough for direct size comparison. Does this seem out of the ordinary to anyone else?