John's message reminded me I had meant to post—as we often do this time of year, we're getting a nice influx of Lesser Black-backed Gulls this week. Yesterday morning I tallied 31 between Myers, Stewart Park, and the Stevenson Road compost, nearly all full breeding plumage adults. There has also been a subadult Iceland Gull, either a dark Kumlien's or a palish Thayer's, at the compost, along with a freakishly white gull that looks like a Glaucous at first glance, but seems to actually be a leucistic Herring based on its fairly small size but hefty bill.
Photos of the last two on my compost checklist from yesterday: https://ebird.org/atlasny/checklist/S105761559 -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
