Thanks for the info Rick; maybe I'll have to check the Ashton area more
frequently this month. Would have to say LAGU is more than "uncommon"
at the reservoir, however. EBird obviously is not complete, but it has
a lot of Triadelphia records--and there's only one record of LAGU at the
reservoir since 1991 (Joe Hanfman in 2009). Think that qualifies as
rare by any standard at that location.
Best,
Jim Moore
Rockville, MD
On 9/9/2012 6:37 PM, Warblerick wrote:
> 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 (?).
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>> 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!
>> Hi Andy,
> Laughing gulls are not really terribly rare along the Patuxent river watershed in September. When I lived in Ashton (for over 20 years) I would see small flocks of them, almost yearly in early Sept., over my house, circling and snatching insects out of the air in flight, apparently following the Patuxent river on migration. Much more rare though along the Potomac in MOCO this time of year. Rather uncommon however to have one on the reservoir, rather than just flying over, as Jim says.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Andy Wilson, Frederick
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