I went back out this afternoon and found 4 adult LBBG at Floyd and 5 adults at Plum Beach. With the 2 first winters from this morning (after reviewing my photos I'm retracting the 3rd winter) that makes a total of 11 Lesser Black-backed Gulls in Brooklyn today. Also approximately 250 HEGU/25 GBBG/9 RBGU/16 LAGU between the 2 sites.
A brief stop at Coney Island around 5:30 yielded 0 LBBG and less than 50 gulls total though 15 of those were GBBG. Shane Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 20, 2015, at 7:31 PM, Derek Rogers <drogers0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > All, > > In anticipation of some storm-driven Lesser Black-backed Gulls I drove > through the fog at Hecksher State Park this evening and tallied up to 12 > individuals staged in the Field 7 parking area. 9 of these individuals were > adults and the remaining 3 subadults. Also present in larger numbers were > Great Black-backed and Herring Gull but a surprising 0 Ring-billed Gull. > > Best, > Derek Rogers > Sayville > > >> On Apr 20, 2015, at 7:15 PM, Shaibal Mitra <shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu> >> wrote: >> >> I wasn't able to get down to the beach during the height of the storm, but I >> tried late in the day. By then the wind had dropped and the fog had rolled >> in thick. >> >> Consistent with Shane's observations, I found two adult LBBGs at Capture SP >> (possibly romantically involved) and two adults, a subadult and a first >> summer at Robert Moses SP (both sites are on the south shore of Long Island >> in western Suffolk County). >> >> Very striking to me was the good representation of LBBG against an overall >> near-absence of gulls at these sites: 0 RBGU, just 11 and 47 Herring Gulls >> at the two sites, and 0 GBBGs. It also struck me as late for lots of adult >> LBBGs--our territorial winter birds used to disappear during March (this >> year they never appeared). >> >> If anyone else got out today and saw LBBGs, I'd appreciate details, so that >> we can refine our understanding of this species' rapidly changing status >> here. >> >> Shai Mitra >> Bay Shore >> ________________________________________ >> From: bounce-119072825-3714...@list.cornell.edu >> [bounce-119072825-3714...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Shane Blodgett >> [shaneblodg...@yahoo.com] >> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 10:51 AM >> To: nys birds >> Subject: [nysbirds-l] Brooklyn storm birding >> >> Hit send prematurely >> 6 LBBG breakdown was 3 adults 2 1st winter and 1 3rd winter >> >> Shane Blodgett >> Brooklyn NY >> >> ________________________________ >> Register today for “Curtains Up!” the inaugural presentation of the Geraldo >> Rivera Lecture Series><http://www.csi.cuny.edu/geraldolectureseries/> >> >> -- >> >> NYSbirds-L List Info: >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm >> >> ARCHIVES: >> 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html >> 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L >> 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html >> >> Please submit your observations to eBird: >> http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ >> >> -- > > > -- > > NYSbirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
