This evening Tom Auer and I relocated the 1st-winter Lesser Black- backed Gull at the mouth of the Knife River, originally found yesterday by Chris Wood. Although I've never seen one in this plumage, we saw most of the field marks including darker mantle, rounder head, and slightly smaller body size than Herring Gull, pale rump, a thin all-black bill, and lack of obvious "windows" on the inner primaries in flight.
At dusk there was a lone Cattle Egret at Agate Bay in Two Harbors roosting on the old concrete pier. It might be one of the five birds seen in town over the weekend. Jim Lind Two Harbors
