Cold sunny winter day gulls.

These gulls were foraging around an area on the ice that is used for ice racing on Sundays. Ice racing brings out tailgating (cookouts). My dog loves this area he always seems to finds something to munch on. Today he was competing with these gulls.


GLAUCOUS GULL (enlarged photo of top center bird in the photos above)

UPDATE: I passed the original photos on to Ryan Brady and asked him to ID the gulls. You will noticed that to the untrained eye (me) the three gulls look different which I thought was unusual for a single photo captured by PURE luck.

The response I got back from the trained eye (Ryan) was great and I quote:
"Well, I knew this would one day happen. You found a "good" bird and photographed it without knowing it.............the top middle bird ia a first winter GLAUCOUS GULL (your "good" bird)

I would slightly disagree...it might be my "good bird" photo but until Ryan IDed it it was "three different looking gulls" to me. So I'll settle for it's "our" good bird.

This is like the old question.. when a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear does it make a sound?

Thanks Ryan.

Ryan adds: "to find one of these along the Ashland lakefront in mid-winter is quite unusual........they are regular up at Corny when ice-free in winter."