This afternoon a very early first winter Glaucous Gull was feeding voraciously on one of the many carp carcasses at Trumbull Lake in Clay county. It made the Ring-billed Gulls look small, and a whirlwind of Franklin's Gulls were dropping in from high above to roost near the shallow water. At Dan Green Slough there were eight shorebird species including Dunlin and Long-billed Dowitcher. A flock of 25 Rusty Blackbirds and four Soras were with a large number of snipe on a mudflat amongst the cattails.
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