Coast of Maine, sept 2012 (1 Viewer)

crazyfingers

Well-known member

• Jul 10, 2019

• #1

I was looking through photos and spotted this that I don't know what. Sept tends to be start of Migration off Maine, US.

Id's appreciated.

Thanks

 

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Microtus

Maryland USA (he/him)

• Jul 10, 2019

• #2

It looks like an immature Herring Gull.

 

lou salomon

the birdonist

• Jul 10, 2019

• #3

agree, 2nd calendar year american herring gull.

 

crazyfingers

Well-known member

• Jul 10, 2019

• #4

Really? I don't see it. I've seen possibly millions of herring gulls and photographed hundreds. Nothing like the head on this one.

It sorta looks like it has a tiny cross bill. I don't see much of a beak at all and it seems to have a brown patch where the eyes should be.

I'm just not seeing it.

 

nartreb

Speak softly and carry a long lens

• Jul 10, 2019

• #5

I think you're getting the head and beak mixed up with the far wing. Can't see a lot of detail in the photo, but it's an overall brownish, gull-like bird with long, dark beak. No reason it couldn't be a first- or second-year herring gull that I can see.

 

crazyfingers

Well-known member

• Jul 10, 2019

• #6

I see it now! Thanks. ya I thought the far wing was part of the head. Oh well. Nothing new here.