tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475527772478294284.post4831178792649113094..comments2024-03-06T15:08:04.122+00:00Comments on SCILLYSPIDER: AMERICAN HERRING GULL at Morning point!scilly spiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05843569686945169781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475527772478294284.post-25657408317312925362013-03-04T22:22:14.881+00:002013-03-04T22:22:14.881+00:00Hi Steve,
Thanks for letting me know about the...Hi Steve,<br /><br /><br /> Thanks for letting me know about the up-to-date identification literature from Dutch Birding or any other birding journel, but I don' get them. I'm just a simple birder (and not a good one at that) that's got a lot to learn and is still leaning. I'm told about identification changes a year later on the grapevine. I was still going around ticking off Mealy Redpoll as a different species to Lesser etc, when they were all lumped together again. It was some years later that I was told that they were no longer different species. Another example is 1st winter ww gulls are now called juveniles. I'm just not up-to-date. <br /><br /> I always get opinions from more experienced birders than me and that's what I've done on this occasion. I also love exploring the islands and if I see something of interest, then that's a bonus and I want everyone to see it too before it's gone. <br /><br /> Like yourself and others, I enjoy birding and I'm not embarrassed at all. I've leaned that there's more important things to life than birding. However, I do believe that you have stated a fair point and thank you for that. <br /><br /><br />Good birding <br /><br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />Kris<br /><br />scilly spiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05843569686945169781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475527772478294284.post-69669742805211399612013-03-03T18:15:20.978+00:002013-03-03T18:15:20.978+00:00I think you'll find that if you read the most ...I think you'll find that if you read the most up-to-date identification literature (e.g. the Dutch Birding papers), your Herring Gull is certainly a second-winter L. a. argenteus and certainly not L. smithsonianus. Why not get some opinions from more experienced birders? - it will save you much embarrassment in the future.<br />All the best, <br />Steve Mason Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com