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Let’s go ahead and continue with the Georgia birding trip theme for another March post.  From what I can tell from a quick count that excursion to the swamps to the east resulted in at least a +5.  Yep, 5 count increments that have simply been sitting in bit purgatory since May 2015 waiting for someone to give them a bit of love and in some cases a dose of processing to get them in decent enough shape to show the world.  Suspect there’s probably less than 800 images left to comb through to finish out the haul from the trip – one good effort over the weekend should put a bow on Georgia processing.  That just leaves the easy part, smacking the keyboard in hopes of delivering a post worthy my  reader’s time.    To that end I bring you the second +1 from the trip.

Laughing Gull found at Tybee Island, Georgia May 2015

For starters, in case you haven’t noticed, I do not feature a lot of Gulls on the blog.  There are two main reasons for this.  One is the fact that they can be damn hard to ID unless you are lucky enough to find the ones that are regionally constrained or have some unique element that makes them stand out from the horde.  I have taken 10’s of thousands of shots of Gulls in my adventures in the field and very few of them fall into the easy to ID category.  Many are juveniles or females which have about an equal chance of getting correctly labeled as a juvenile Sparrow.  Thus, those shots lay nestled on their digital platters patiently waiting for me to dig in and devote the time and energy to properly check them off the list.  Knowing the Gulls are pretty much untapped gives me a bit of comfort when it comes to my relatively low bird count and something to fall back to on a rainy day.

Laughing Gull found at Tybee Island, Georgia May 2015

Hit the jump to find out more about this hooded bandit.

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