[CT Birds] Bird grouping from other hemisphere.

[Clay Taylor]

Dave -

Euro Trash -
South Cove, Old Saybrook, mid-80s, me sitting in my canoe and chumming a
"slick" of chopped-up éclair shells ( a long story, there), surrounded by
about 300 Bonaparte's Gulls, two different Black-headed Gulls, and four
different Little Gulls!   At that point, I don't think there were any
confirmed nestings of those two in NA.   I believe Bob Dewire and the DPNC
group were all standing on the causeway that day, watching The Gull Show.

That year, I photographically ID'd 3 different individual Black-heads and 7
different Littles at South Cove, and documented that the adult Black-head
went from basic (winter) head color to full breeding (Alternate) in 18 days.
Really cool.   Frank Mantlik and I canoed out to the CT river breakwaters to
photograph the birds, and I slipped on a wet spot and almost threw my Nikon
200mm lens into the River.   Yipes!

South meets North -
Sept 27, 1981, after a Brookline Bird Club pelagic trip out of Chatham, MA,
featuring gannets, shearwaters, kittiwakes and the like, Dave Titus and John
Maynard and I (was George Zepko there? I don't remember) got the Fork-tailed
Flycatcher in Chatham at the end of the day.

Clay Taylor
Moodus, CT
ctaylor at att.net


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Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [CT Birds] Bird grouping from other hemisphere.


>
> Tom,
>
> How about Common Gull and Fieldfare on same day in New Brunswick, Canada?
> That's two from Europe. Also like Brian's two old world terns, how about
> Whiskered Tern, Curlew Sandpiper same day in Delaware (I didn't see the
> White-winged). Anyone have more than two on same day in the northeast from
> another hemisphere (southern or eastern)? Let's hear about them.
> Dave
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