At 4:15 p.m. today, a first-winter Iceland Gull was at the marina on the east side of Port Jefferson Harbor, viewed from the parking lot of Danford's Inn. This is evidently the same bird recorded on the Smithtown count (December 27), found a few days before by Peter Scully.
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