Banded Gull And Young Merlin

Today when I went down to the park there were a bunch of gulls down there. I started to look through them to see if I could find any unusual gulls in with the normal ones. Shortly after I had started looking through the gulls I found A Glaucous Winged Gull that had a band on its leg. I was able to get some photos of it and the bands. Glaucous Winged Gull are not rare or unusual here in fact they are one of our most common gulls here. I just have never seen a gull with bands on its legs before. It was exciting to get to see it. Later in the day I went out by thimbleberry lake because there was a merlin nest out there and I wanted to see If I could get better photos of the fledglings. I had seen the nest the day before but did not get very good photos of the young and I had gotten up early that morning and went out there and saw nothing. So I went out there there in the after noon I was out there for a while before a person I knew that found the nest came by we talked for a while and watched the nest and nothing happened. We stold in the forest as it rained hard in the open. After the rain had stopped we started hearing the young merlins making some noise then they started to fly around. I was able to get some good photos of them. It was exciting to watch them.                                                              a young merlin                                                   banded glaucous winged gull