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peeplo@aol.com
Thu, Jan 15, 2009 3:19 AM

Hi Greg & company,

I was at the Coastal Center today, around sunset.? Two male Harriers (1 adult, 1 subadult) cruising around, but the interesting thing was the number of Ring-billed Gulls on the inner bars east of the platform.? I counted 649 + an additional estimated 300 that flew west before I started counting.. . The nearly 1000 Ring-billeds were together.? There were probably 500 Herring Gulls and just a few Great Black-backed, but they were mostly on the outer bars to?the east and west, and not with the ring-bills..?I've not noticed this before,?and I'll be curious to see if it continues...There were 200?Am. Black Ducks, and 92 Common Goldeneye. An adult Peregrine flew over the Route 110 bridge?heading south along the?Housatonic.? ?????Frank Gallo

Hi Greg & company, I was at the Coastal Center today, around sunset.? Two male Harriers (1 adult, 1 subadult) cruising around, but the interesting thing was the number of Ring-billed Gulls on the inner bars east of the platform.? I counted 649 + an additional estimated 300 that flew west before I started counting.. . The nearly 1000 Ring-billeds were together.? There were probably 500 Herring Gulls and just a few Great Black-backed, but they were mostly on the outer bars to?the east and west, and not with the ring-bills..?I've not noticed this before,?and I'll be curious to see if it continues...There were 200?Am. Black Ducks, and 92 Common Goldeneye. An adult Peregrine flew over the Route 110 bridge?heading south along the?Housatonic.? ?????Frank Gallo