The EARED GREBE and the "Blonde Gull" (1st-cycle GLAUCOUS GULL) originally found mid-week by Dave Neveu were both present today at Dunkirk Harbor in Chautauqua Co. with the Grebe frequenting the area in close just off the Main Pier between the docked Margaret Ann (boat) and the east inner breakwall. The Glaucous was making its rounds through the docks on both sides of the pier as well as the inner breakwalls, mostly mooching fish scraps from the Great Black-backed Gulls, but also readily took some bread which I threw out I threw out in hopes of drawing it in for photos (the local RB Gulls appreciated this too). A Horned Grebe was also present, along with a Ruddy Duck (seen by Bill Watson), and at least 9 BALD EAGLES that were sitting either out on the ice edge or in the tall oaks at the point just south of the harbor. At one point it was interesting to watch as two immature Eagles tirelessly pursued and then eventually captured a Ring-billed Gull out over the ice. Bill Watson and I then continued south into the towns of Clymer and French Creek in the very SW part of the state and near the French Creek preserve on Route 4 had a nice sooty black adult m. ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and at Clymer Pond in the hamlet of Clymer, a pair of KILLDEER that were working the limited patches of grass and shoreline along the pond, and most probably were recent arrivals on last night's clear skies and SW winds. Jim Pawlicki Amherst, NY
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