3/15 Stratford, Long Beach and Lordship Seawall, 10:30- 12:30 - Huge numbers
of larger gulls plankton-feeding between Long Beach West east to Russian Beach.
Rough estimates: 3000 Ring-billed, 2000 Herring, 10 Great Black-backed, 1
adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED, ZERO Bonaparte's Gulls. Also, 2 Double-crested
Cormorants, a smattering of usual puddle and sea ducks, decent numbers of Brant.
The gulls periodically flew and shifted position/location, presumably depending
on where the plankton was densest. At one point, a backfiring small plane flew
over, and virtually all the gulls and waterfowl took flight and
shifted/dispersed elsewhere.
3/15 Milford Point salt marsh - dark-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK perched on upright
driftwood tree branch - as viewed from Stratford boat ramp.
3/13 Stratford, Long Beach Blvd., Refuge RR trail, with Charlie Barnard - 13
BOAT-TAILED GRACKLES (10m, 3f) in marsh near platform at end of trail, 1 Lesser
Yellowlegs in pond with observation blind.
And a coworker told me that on Sunday 3/13 he saw a large number of gulls
("2000"?) sitting in the water near the jetty at Jennings Beach, Fairfield.
Let the games begin.
Frank Mantlik
Stratford
From: Nick Bonomo nbonomo@gmail.com
To: CTBirds ctbirds@lists.ctbirding.org
Sent: Tue, March 15, 2011 12:06:18 PM
Subject: [CT Birds] Stratford gull frenzy at noon
Frank Mantlik just called to report several thousand gulls
plankton-feeding off the seawall in Stratford. These flocks tend to
move around a bit, so if you don't see them, check the coast in either
direction.
Nick Bonomo
Wallingford, CT
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3/15 Stratford, Long Beach and Lordship Seawall, 10:30- 12:30 - Huge numbers
of larger gulls plankton-feeding between Long Beach West east to Russian Beach.
Rough estimates: 3000 Ring-billed, 2000 Herring, 10 Great Black-backed, 1
adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED, ZERO Bonaparte's Gulls. Also, 2 Double-crested
Cormorants, a smattering of usual puddle and sea ducks, decent numbers of Brant.
The gulls periodically flew and shifted position/location, presumably depending
on where the plankton was densest. At one point, a backfiring small plane flew
over, and virtually all the gulls and waterfowl took flight and
shifted/dispersed elsewhere.
3/15 Milford Point salt marsh - dark-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK perched on upright
driftwood tree branch - as viewed from Stratford boat ramp.
3/13 Stratford, Long Beach Blvd., Refuge RR trail, with Charlie Barnard - 13
BOAT-TAILED GRACKLES (10m, 3f) in marsh near platform at end of trail, 1 Lesser
Yellowlegs in pond with observation blind.
And a coworker told me that on Sunday 3/13 he saw a large number of gulls
("2000"?) sitting in the water near the jetty at Jennings Beach, Fairfield.
Let the games begin.
Frank Mantlik
Stratford
________________________________
From: Nick Bonomo <nbonomo@gmail.com>
To: CTBirds <ctbirds@lists.ctbirding.org>
Sent: Tue, March 15, 2011 12:06:18 PM
Subject: [CT Birds] Stratford gull frenzy at noon
Frank Mantlik just called to report several thousand gulls
plankton-feeding off the seawall in Stratford. These flocks tend to
move around a bit, so if you don't see them, check the coast in either
direction.
Nick Bonomo
Wallingford, CT
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