[Tweeters] Franklin's Gulls at Cedar River Delta

[Odette B. James]

Two Franklin's Gulls here today.  Spotted shortly after 4pm.  They were not
together.  One was standing in very shallow water near a log, and as I
scanned farther out along the line of gulls, another Franklin's flew past,
stopping briefly on a log but then continuing on up the east side of the
lake.  Neither bird is an adult - the departing gull had a black band on its
tail and the remaining gull has a blotchy rather than uniformly colored
mantle.  Both are very small and have dark hoods and eye rings.  There also
is an adult Short-billed Gull among the gulls, most of which appear to be
Californias.  And about 20 lounging Caspian Terns, all apparently adults,
with the gulls.

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