[CT Daily] 02/13/2009 Slatey-backed continues

[Roy Harvey]

*****  COA Windsor Landfill Gull Workshop
*****  
*****  The Windsor Landfill has produced some spectacular 
*****  birds this winter, with the state’s first and second
*****  records for Slaty-backed Gull and second or third 
*****  record of Thayer’s Gull.  Come join Patrick Comins 
*****  on Monday March 2nd at 9 AM to search the gull flocks
*****  for rare gulls and learn what to look for to find 
*****  your own mega rarity.  Whether you want to learn how 
*****  to tell a Herring Gull from a Great Black-backed or 
*****  are interested in learning how to tell a Slaty-backed
*****  Gull from a hybrid HerringXLesser Black-backed, 
*****  birders of all skill levels are welcome.
*****  
*****  This is a special weekday ID seminar because the gull
*****  numbers are much reduced on weekends at this location.
*****  Please email pcomins at audubon.org for additional info.  
*****  
*****  The landfill is at 500 Huckleberry Rd, Windsor, CT.
*****  We will meet at the entrance at 9:00 AM, March 2nd.
*****  


 From James P. Smith:
02/13/09 - Windsor, Bloomfield-Windsor Landfill -- Slaty-backed Gull
eventually located it near the admin buildings at 15:10hrs just before
it headed off East at around 15:15hrs.  Most of the gulls were massing
around the fresh trash but the Slaty was with a smaller group of
American Herring Gulls not really paying too much attention to the
frenzy.  Admist the 6K large gulls present: 1 "Kumlien's" Iceland Gull
(1st cycle); 1 "Kumlien's"/Thayer's Gull (2nd cycle); 1 Glaucous Gull
(1st cycle); 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull (adult graellsii).

 From Jay Kaplan:
02/13/09 - Windsor, Bloomfield-Windsor Landfill -- 10:30 AM;
Slaty-backed Gull located by B. Asteriades and P. Stephan in the gull
group closest to the landfill office.  Also present Glaucous and
Iceland Gulls.  The garbage trucks had not even come in yet.

 From Carl Ekroth:
02/13/09 - Windsor Landfill -- with Peter Stephan, Bill Asterides, Jay
Kaplan, et al; 1 SLATY-BACK GULL, 2 ICELAND GULLS, 1 GLAUCOUS GULL.
East Windsor, Broad Brook Pond -- (by myself) 1 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED
GOOSE.

 From Bill Asteriades, Carl Ekroth, Jay Kaplan, Peter Stephan, Ernie
Harris and others:
02/13 - Windsor, Windsor Landfill -- SLATEY-BACKED GULL continues
10:00-10:30, 1 GLAUCOUS GULL and 2 ICELAND GULLS.

 From Brian Webster:
02/13/09 - Stratford yard -- male Common Redpoll.