Late yesterday I went to Bush Terminal Park hoping to locate Brooklyn's reported Iceland Gull. I ran into a CP birder named Tina who was doing the same. After a long, unsuccessful stake out of the usual roosts along the jetties, I shifted my focus to a cloud of gull activity just outside the park along 1st Ave. Several big rigs loaded with a "fragrant" cargo was attracting the birds. A quick scan located an Iceland among the mostly ring-billed & herrings.
Leaving the park to get a better look, Tina and I walked down to a recently parked truck that had a bunch of gulls landing on it. After only a minute or two the Iceland came it. It hung around the area for a while and was still perched on the roof of a building opposite the park entrance when I left. It wasn't until today that I looked at the photo from the original reporter that I realized that there are two Iceland Gulls. His was a second cycle and yesterday's was an adult. Cool. Good birding, Rob Sent via digital smoke signals -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
