Birders may be unterested to know that Margaret Bain, Hugh Currie, Maureen Riggs and myself birded Niagara all day yesterday and today (never ever saw fewer total gulls or people) and all of us saw 12 species of gull well, includding 2 BLKittiwakes at the Horseshoe Falls (yesterday), adult Little Gulls today at NOTL and Queenston, 1 adult Thayer's yesterday at Adam Beck as well as Iceland and Glaucous and a much-studied (by us; we were alone all day) 2nd -year California Gull, at least a half dozen Lesser Black Backs at the control gates over the two days, and today in the afternoon we refound Dave Beadle's Yellow-legged Gull on the breakwater at the control gates. We studied it hard (alone) and were eventually joined by Kevin McLaughlin, Mike Cadman and Brian Wyatt. Kevin liked the bird as Yellow-legged but was still doggedly studying it after we left under police escort to get to a gas station. Among our 60-odd species we saw King Eider at Fifty Point yesterday and the female King Eider at Millen Road, and the young male King today at Fort Erie. We could not find the Lark Sparrow or the Franklin's Gull at Fort Erie. Cheers, Richard Pope
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