{"id":10645,"date":"2021-02-13T20:15:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T01:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10645"},"modified":"2021-02-13T20:15:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T01:15:45","slug":"adult-iceland-gull-02-13-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10645","title":{"rendered":"Adult Iceland Gull, 02\/13\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I feel like I’ve been on a pretty good roll lately. Last night Bruce Nott, birding bud and fellow Larophile, emailed me some fabulous photos he took of an adult Iceland Gull. I was already planning to head to the river the next day, but this gorgeous bird got me really excited to head over – I’ve been saying for years that I’d love to get a look at an adult ICGU. So, I joined Bruce and Joe Chernek at the Newburgh Waterfront early this afternoon; Bruce had already relocated the bird and it wasn’t very far out. We enjoyed tremendous looks at this beautiful bird and, of course, took loads of photos. Karen Miller joined us and she got the bird as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Beautiful Bird. Adult Iceland Gull at the Newburgh Waterfront this afternoon, 02\/13\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Joe and Karen left, but Bruce and lingered. More gulls were moving in, and we were hoping to see the immature Glaucous Gull. I located an interesting bird that was a little bit distant. It was definitely a white-winged gull that was showing some gray on its upper back and wings. Eventually the bird relocated and we got some better looks – it was a subadult Iceland Gull! We were both pretty jazzed about that bird, but also greedy… and it paid off as Bruce was able to locate the immature Glaucous Gull before we got too cold and wrapped things up. It was another great day of gulling; I can’t thank Bruce enough for all the work he’s been doing and for keeping everyone informed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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~Adult ICGU at the Newburgh Waterfront, 02\/13\/21. We believe this is Kumlien’s sub-species, based on the light colored eye and the limited streaking on the nape\/neck.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Adult ICGU in flight, 02\/13\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Adult ICGU with an adult Ring-billed Gull. I like this shot because it shows the difference in the stark black wing tips of the RBGU, versus the muted gray wing tips in the ICGU.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Showing off. Adult ICGU in Newburg 02\/13\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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~Subadult Iceland Gull (behind a Herring Gull), Newburgh Waterfront 02\/13\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I feel like I’ve been on a pretty good roll lately. Last night Bruce Nott, birding bud and fellow Larophile, emailed me some fabulous photos he took of an adult Iceland Gull. I was already planning to head to the river the next day, but this gorgeous bird got me really excited to head over … Continue reading “Adult Iceland Gull, 02\/13\/21”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-rarities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2LH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10653,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645\/revisions\/10653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}