Monthly Notables December 2017

Sightings:

• Great Black-backed Gull (1st cycle). Polk County, Iowa. 02 December 2017.
• Great Black-backed Gull (adult). Pueblo County, Colorado. 02 December 2017.
• Believed to be the same returning adult for the 24th year!
• California Gull (adult). Butler County, Pennsylvania. 03 December 2017.
• Black-headed Gull (1st cycle). Wakulla County, Florida. 03 December 2017.
• Black-headed Gull (adult). Riverside County, California. 05 December 2017.
• Black-legged Kittiwake (adult). Cibola County, New Mexico. 06 December 2017.
• Slaty-backed Gull (adult). Kenosha County, Wisconsin. 10 December 2017.
• First County Record. 
• Slaty-backed Gull (adult). Benton County, Washington. 11 December 2017.
• Likely a reoccurring bird from last two winters. 
• California Gull (adult). Ketchikan Gateway County, Alaska. 16 December 2017.
• Thayer's Gull (2nd cycle). Bucks County, Pennsylvania. 16 December 2017.
• Sabine's Gull (1st cycle). Galveston County, Texas. 17 December 2017.
• Herring Gull (1st cycle). Nome County, Alaska. 21 December 2017.
• Subspecies undetermined. 2nd latest record locally. 
• Kamchatka Gull (adult). Digby County, Nova Scotia. 24 December 2017.
• Returning individual for third consecutive winter. 
• Black-legged Kittiwake (1st cycle). Chambers & Harris County, Texas. 25 December 2017.
• Black-legged Kittiwake (1st cycle). Ottawa County, Michigan. 26 December 2017.
• Kumlien's Gull (2nd cycle). Nanaimo District, British Columbia. 27 December 2017.
• Mew Gull (1st cycle). Franklin County, Ohio. 28 December 2017.
• Laughing Gull (adult). La Salle County, Illinois. 28 December 2017.