Date: 3/14/26 9:56 am From: Robert O'Brien via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] A Gull Named Bob
P.S. About 2001 I photographed a banded Cook Inlet Gull (
https://ebird.org/species/x00050) at a downtown park in Portland.
S/he was hatched on the Kenai Peninsula 25 years earlier. I didn't catch
'their' name though. Bobette? Even S/he may still be around, who knows?
Bob
On Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 9:28 AM Robert O'Brien <baro...> wrote:
> Hmmm
> Could be Bob has passed on;, but some Bobs are VERY OLD; but still
> around, You can find them anywhere.
> S/he might have been home at some point in the past..
> Check these out. They are short-form urls that you must click on twice to
> open the full site;
> All photos by Bob
> Best regards, Bob
>
> ICGU.html <http://www2.rdrop.com/users/green/icgu/ICGU.html> >
> ICGU2.html <http://www2.rdrop.com/users/green/icgu/ICGU2.html> >
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 7:57 PM Alan Roedell <alanroedell...>
> wrote:
>
>> Eloquent!
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 7:25 PM Robert O'Brien via Tweeters <
>> <tweeters...> wrote:
>>
>>> AreIs Bob's photos available online somewhere? Seems intriguing.
>>> Best Regards, Bob from Portland
>>> Or, preferably, send Bob down here.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 7:18 PM Carol Riddell via Tweeters <
>>> <tweeters...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey Tweets,
>>>>
>>>> Okay. Showing my age here. How many still alive and still subscribing
>>>> to Tweeters remember the ID controversy of Bob? Marv Breece does because
>>>> his excellent photo of Bob appears on page 67 of Gene Hunn’s Birding in
>>>> Seattle and King County (2d ed.) with some accompanying text on page 68.
>>>> Bob appeared each winter between 2004 and 2009, in both the Kent Valley and
>>>> the south end of Lake Washington (Cedar River mouth). Bob always inspired
>>>> lively debates over his/her ID. Iceland nominate glaucoides? Thayer’s?
>>>> Kumlien’s? Runt Glaucous Gull? Those were fun times to listen in on the
>>>> debates of local experts. I don’t think Bob ever got a definitive ID, but
>>>> Gene Hunn did get in the last word! Those were good times when Tweeters was
>>>> the definitive place to share and discuss birding information. Now we have
>>>> eBird, Facebook groups, WhatsApp groups by county, and Tweeters still
>>>> limping along. I rue the balkanization of our sharing and discussing birds.
>>>> When everyone came to the discussion table at Tweeters, it allowed new
>>>> birders to benefit from more experienced birders and for lots of people to
>>>> get to know each other statewide.
>>>>
>>>> It is fun to see that even an expert such as Amar Ayyash is reluctant
>>>> to give a definitive ID based on the Hadley-Robinson photo of the Cedar
>>>> River mouth gull. But such fun to puzzle over the photo and to be humbled
>>>> by gull identification. At least Amar did not offer the possibility of a
>>>> runt Glaucous Gull! It is an Iceland Gull of some race. Thanks so much
>>>> Jane, for sharing the photo, the various Tweeters opinions, as well as that
>>>> of Amar. And I second Jane’s recommendation for his excellent 2024 Gull
>>>> Guide.
>>>>
>>>> Good Birding,
>>>>
>>>> Carol Riddell
>>>> Edmonds, WA
>>>> cariddellwa at gmail dot com
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