Date:         Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:39:35 -0500
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From:         Thomas Harten <tjharten@CONCENTRIC.NET>
Subject:      Re: Jug Bay Gulls & questions
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Ospreyers:

A single adult Lesser Black-backed Gull was seen today from Jackson's
Landing on the P.G. side of Jug Bay-along with several hundred
Ring-billed
Gulls and Herring Gulls and a few Great Black-backed Gulls.  For the
most
part the birds were standing on the frozen portions of the river.

Another adult Lesser Black-backed Gull was seen this afternoon on
Schoolhouse Pond in Upper Marlboro.

Tom Harten
Croom

-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie <cmmbirds@YAHOO.COM>
To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM <MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
Date: Thursday, January 20, 2000 12:59 PM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Jug Bay Gulls & questions


>Hi folks,
>
>I though Marshall would post this, it looks like
>he's busy.
>
>Yesterday Marshall Iliff and I went out in search
>of an unusual gull that's been seen here a couple
>times.  We did not find the bird, but in the
>several thousand gulls that were here (a higher
>Herring:RIng-billed ratio than I am used to) we
>did locate 2 adult Lesser Black-backed.
>
>After I returned to work Marshall came back a
>reported a 1st-winter Thayers Gull.
>
>Some clarification on the gull initially being
>sought.  Danny Bystrak reported a Black-headed to
>me on the 8th.  On the 9th Stan Arnold, Lynette
>Fullerton and I found what we assumed to be the
>same bird.  Talking with Danny later, we realized
>we had _2_ different birds.  Danny's was an
>immature, with yellow-based bill.  Ours was an
>adult with all-red bill and legs.  Ours had _NO_
>black on the head.  Danny later found this bird
>on about the 15th, and agreed it is an adult with
>no black.
>
>So the question:  is it simply a Black-headed
>with no ear spot?  Or is it something else?  In
>my look through Harrison, I found 2 birds that
>could fit the description, but both are old
>world, and both would likely be escapes.
>
>Any ideas?  Rick?  Gene?  Anyone?
>
>Charlie Muise
>
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>Charlie Muise, Naturalist
>Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary
>Maryland, USA
>"The English country gentleman galloping after a fox
> - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable"
>(Oscar Wilde)
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