[CT Birds] Sat. stuff

[Frank Mantlik]

>From Frank Mantlik
3/22 Westport, Hillspoint Rd., Sherwood Millpond from
town Canoe Launch (old Allen's), 4:20 pm - at least 7
NORTHERN SHOVELERS (5 male), 1 OSPREY adding sticks to
new nest platform.

3/22 Stratford, foot of Cove Pl. (Park Blvd.) 5 -6 pm
- 1000's of gulls (3000?):  1000 BONAPARTE'S, 2000
Ring-billed, 1000 Herring - swimming/feeding on ?
plankton, as well as larger gulls using bills to scape
food (barnacle spat?) off recently-exposed rocks. 
Several thousand more gulls resting on low-tide bars
off Short Beach.
Despite looking through all this larid biomass, I
could not find any unusual species.  But still quite a
sight.