Dan's picture of a Mew Gull among Ringed-bill Gulls is great practice photo. I was at the Kalispell Dump yesterday and it took me nearly an hour's looking...
I'm new too! And in Missoula. Lee Metcalf is a great place to go. It's 20 miles down the Bitterroot. I went there last weekend and saw: Great Horned Owl Hawks...
Greetings all, I'll be heading to Missoula tomorrow for a few days and wondered what places you might recommend this time of the year. I'm a relatively new...
MOB-sters: Sorry to post yet another gull message, but I thought anyone planning on looking for Mew Gulls among the throng at the Flathead landfill, or in any...
Mobbers: For the past several days we have had 15-20 Evening Grosbeaks coming to our feeder in Missoula. Today we had 19 all at once and all males. The curious...
Dan One of the things that caught my attention was the dark eye. I suppose it could come from a Western Gull somewhere back in its ancestry, or a vegae. The...
Chuck: I agree with Jeff's earlier comment that it looks like this bird has Glaucous-winged Gull in its parentage. It looks far too buky in comparison to the...
Hi All, Most of the water at Warm Springs is open again after having been frozen over last week. However the number of birds is drastically down even with the...
MOBsters, Just a reminder that I need your help when you make entries into the photo contest by including all of the necessary information. The contest has...
It sounds to me like even the gulls themselves can not figure out what species they are for sure and end up mating with the wrong one giving us yet more gull...
Jeff, Mobsters I just posted another photo. I found a California in the mix. Distance makes the size difference deceptive but the back color difference is...
Thanks Jeff As to eye color, through the scope it was not as light as seen on the Ring-billeds and appeared mostly dark. However in the photos it appears...
HI Gang, I'm actually in Washington DC having visited with Dan's Organization today. I must say how impressed I am with Am. Bird Conservancy. Any way TEd's...
Mobsters I've posted two long range photos of a gull I identified as an adult Thayer's Gull. However some of the characteristics seem a little off for this...
MOB-sters: A lunch-time check of the Flathead Gullery revealed a minimum of 4 recognizable Mew Gulls (not all seen together). Big numbers, and the Glaucous...
Hi all, saw one adult female Surf Scoter on pond 1 at Freezout this morning. Still have several Tundra Swans and White Geese around the lake. Saw one Marsh...
Hi, I checked again this after noon then again just before dark today with no luck. We seem to still have lots of Ring-billed Gulls but not our Lesser ...
Nate, Dan, Mobsters Just a point of interest on scoters In Birds of Europe by Mullarney, Svensson, et al is an excellent descrption and illustration of the...
Hello All, To add to Dan's notes on spotting scoters at a distance, I've also noticed that the White-winged will typically lift their wings a little higher...
Nat & Dan, I kinda of thought that was the case but you can't blame a girl for trying. We'll find one some day. However, having a full time job sorta limits...
Sharon: I agree with Nate that the bird you photographed is a Surf Scoter for the reasons he noted, with the apparent white stripe probably a light artifact. I...
Sharon, I took a look at your scoter photos, and from what I can tell it looks like a Surf. I'm not sure what that light patch on the wing is, but the location...
Thought about going to Silver Lake today but decided it was too far to go on a Sunday. Started at the Helena Reg Res. Found Common & Barrow's Goldeneye,...
Just did a 15 min. check late afternoon and did not find the LBBG. Way less geese today and a number of gulls seem to have gone. 2 swans and one Common Loon...
Well the Farmers came up from Bozeman today to see it. We sat and sat and waited for it to show. It never came! It may have packed it bags and gone. The island...
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