I had tons of gulls this morning. Not kidding.... I had a rough estimate of at least 2,000 gulls, with about 100 Bonaparte's Gulls, all seen off of the main overlook beyond the landfill at Wisconsin Point. I wasn't able to pick out any rare ducks from this location. There was one Bonaparte's-sized gull that had a good remnant of medium-gray hood on the back of it's head. This stood out amongst the many nearby Bonaparte's Gulls' heads which had the single dark mark behind their eye.
Before I went to the high overlook past the landfill, I spent my first 1 1/2 hours of this morning at the first pull-off area on Wisconsin Point. I did have one female BLACK SCOTER from this location, as well as several dozen Blue-winged Teal fly-by. In addition to the Blue-winged Teals, other noted birds from this morning include: Scaup, 2 Redheads, 1 American Golden Plover, 2 Sanderlings, and 1 Spotted Sandpiper. I'm planning on checking Minnesota Point tomorrow before work. We'll see what turns up :) Also, for anyone that's up in the Superior/Duluth area, tomorrow looks like a very promising day at Hawk Ridge for a good flight of raptors... Strong west winds with sun. Today we had just over 400 raptors. Good birding, Erik Bruhnke Duluth, MN birdfedr at gmail.com www.pbase.com/birdfedr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20081009/bf33622b/attachment.html
