There is major dredging underway at Point Lookout and there is no access to the beach area by the jetties. The beach entrance in the southeast corner of the town parking area is roped off, and the beach has been extended with pumped sand all the way to the end of the eastern two jetties. I didn't see that many gulls. Some may remember that dredging in the nineties produced 12 or 13 species of gulls, including Ross'. Only 1 Bonaparte's Gull was around while I was there. >From the small accessible area in the southeast corner, at the end of Mineola >Avenue, I had 1 drake Harlequin flying west. Otherwise the usual birds - >Common Eider, both loons, Horned grebes. --
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