In addition to the species list already posted for Friday (10/15) at Wisconsin Point, Joel Claus spotted a Franklin's Gull and Mike Hendrickson spotted an adult Lesser Black-backed Gull at parking lot #1.
At 5:30 PM that same afternoon at the Park Point Recreation Area, I watched two jaegers interacting with one another and chasing Ring-billed Gulls. One was a subadult Parasitic, while the second bird was an unidentified juvenile. Although the juvenile appeared to be slightly larger than the Parasitic, reverse sexual dimorphism in jaegers affects size comparisons between species and my views were not good enough for identification based on plumage. Another (or the same?) Franklin's Gull was photographed on the ballfields at the Recreation Area. I took well over 2,000 images of the jaegers at Wisconsin Point on the 15th and probably won't be able to upload any Pomarine and Parasitic Jaeger shots until later this weekend. Meanwhile, here is the link to my best images of the Long-tailed Jaeger. http://picasaweb.google.com/psvingen/JaegerSlamAtWisconsinPoint# Peder H. Svingen Duluth, MN On Oct 15, 2010, at 6:50 PM, Michael Hendrickson wrote: > Spent a remarkable day with Peder Svingen, Joel Claus and Robbeye Johnson at > the > first parking lot at Wisconsin Point. I arrived around 10:30am and stayed > until > 2:45pm. > > > We observed the adult Long-tailed Jaeger numerous times chasing Ring-billed > Gulls and even Herring Gulls! We were able to take numerous photo as they > jaeger zipped by us several times chasing up the gull off the beach or gulls > loafing out in front of us. We also observed a juvenile Pomarine Jaeger ( > probably one of Karl Bardon's birds he found yesterday ) and a sub adult > Parasitic Jaeger. At times the Pomarine Jaeger was chasing the Parasitic > Jaeger > or the Long-tailed Jaeger. So we were able to take in all the field marks of > each species with having all three species chasing each other and also > compared > them with the gulls they chased. > > Other highlights: > > * Red-throated Loon > * Long-tailed Ducks > * good numbers of Northern PintailsI posted all my photos of the > jaegers on my > blog: http://colderbythelakebirding.blogspot.com/ > > Have a great day and I am sure others will be posting locations to view their > photos. Also keep an eye on the MOU show case in recently seen section as I > am > sure people will be posting their photos. > > Mike > > > Mike Hendrickson > Duluth, Minnesota > Website: http://webpages.charter.net/mmhendrickson/ > Blog: http://colderbythelakebirding.blogspot.com/ > > > > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
