Interesting that visits the past 2 days to Breezy Point/Fort Tilden/Riis in Queens and Floyd Bennett and Plumb in Brooklyn yielded only 1 3rd/4th year at Breezy. My high count for LBBG in Brooklyn is actually in the spring, April 20, 2015 to be exact when I had 13 between Floyd and Plum almost all adults if I remember correctly.
Shane Blodgett Brooklyn NY Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 30, 2016, at 3:15 PM, Shaibal Mitra <shaibal.mi...@csi.cuny.edu> wrote: > > I also spent some time yesterday and today checking the Long Island barrier > beaches for Lesser Black-backed Gulls. > > Of 15 individuals I managed to study and photograph, the age distribution was > 3 juveniles, 5 second calendar-year, 5 third calendar-year, and 2 older > immatures that were difficult to assign (either third or fourth > calendar-year); I haven't seen any full adults personally since 5 September. > > The juveniles are very beautiful, and the next couple of weeks offer our best > opportunity to see them. Very few remain this far north during the winter, > and when they return in numbers to over-summer here, their SY plumages are, > to put it charitably, less attractive. The various immature plumages I've > been seeing lately are illustrated here: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/96951581@N02/29944469171/in/photostream/ > > A new cohort of juvenile Herring Gulls has also come in; these look quite > different from our local juvs, with fresh and very contrasty plumage and > all-black bills. > > Shai Mitra > Bay Shore > ________________________________________ > From: bounce-120844860-3714...@list.cornell.edu > [bounce-120844860-3714...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of David Klauber > [davehawk...@msn.com] > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 2:07 PM > To: NY Birds > Subject: [nysbirds-l] Lesser Black-backed Gulls barrier beaches Long Island > Nassau & Sufflok counties > > This morning Bobby Rosetti and I checked various parking lots from Jones > Beach West End to Robert Moses. We saw at least 25-30 different Lesser > Black-backed Gulls in all plumages from juvenile through adult. Specifically > they were in the west End 2 lot, Robt Moses field 2 and 5, Captree upper lot, > and Tobay. In addition Bobby saw between 8-10 at Point Lookout. A nice study > in Lesser BB Gull plumages > -- > > 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/ --
