Date: 9/9/12 3:40 pm
From: Warblerick <ricksussman1955...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Re: Laughing Gull at Tridelphia


On Sunday, September 9, 2012 5:43:24 PM UTC-4, Andy Wilson wrote:
> Dear all,
> �
> At 2:45 this afternoon I watched the Sabine's Gull fly north up the lake, not sure whether anyone has seen it since (?).
> �
> Almost immediately afterwards, a Laughing Gull landed exactly where the Sabine's had been sat on the spit - I have a couple of blurry digi-scope photos. I mentioned this in a previous email but thought I'd send it out again. Having returned home and checked eBird, I found that Laughing Gull is a rarer bird in Montgomery County than I thought. Didn't want county listers to overlook this in the barrage of Sabine's Gull posts!
> Oh, and that may have been me you passed as you left, if we chatted briefly and you said the SAGU had flown upriver about 20 minutes prior (about 3 PM or so). A small group of us did finally get good look as it it made its way back towards the spit, landing in the water.

Rick Sussman
Woodbine,MD
> �
> Cheers
> �
> Andy Wilson, Frederick

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