There were over forty seagulls at the pond along with twenty-some mallards, about nine were female. There was time to gaze at these gulls who crowded all over the circle/cylindar when I scattered a few bread bits, and to notice there was a difference, as shown in the Birds book I had along, between the Glaucus, the Herring, and the Western gull. Eight appeared to be the immature Western Gull, a beautiful photograph was on-line at Matthew Filar Fine Art Photography. This photography group is near-by Humboldt County, where the Thanksgiving Bird Count I count with is located.
Four crows flew over my circle/cylindar at one point. When about five minutes remained in the hour of the count, about eight small birds flittered through the edge of the circle and lit among tree branches and on the ground among shrubs. They went to the other side of the pond quickly, so I went over and made sure they were Juncos. They were.
It only started to rain lightly thirty-five minutes into the count. But it had been so stormy, the crows were balancing on strong windy gusts, most of the other birds were budgeting their time at feeding stations, I guess.
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