Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 22:16:42 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Katrina Knight Subject: Re: SILVER GULL at Brown's Station Landfill, Maryland (long) In-Reply-To: <78.d5f4b18.27589ab9@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed On 01:10 AM 12/1/00 Marshall Iliff wrote: > Another bird was seen south of Wilmington, DE (Penn Manor?) and > also in >adjacent NJ (Pennsville?) for a winter or two in the mid-1990s. The >only date >I can find is a submission to the DE Records Committee for 13 Nov >1996, but I >know the bird was seen longer than this and that there is a photo in >_Field >Notes_ (probably the Fall 1996 issue that I don't have handy). It was seen there for two years. That bird was first seen after an aviary containing gulls collapsed in a snowstorm at a zoo in New York. Said zoo (I forget which one) claimed they did not have any Silver/Red-billed Gulls. Someone eventually came up with a fairly recent picture of one in the aviary in question, so that seemed to take care of that. I think this was discussed on birdchat at the time, so a search of the archives might lead to the details involved. If anyone is really interested and can't find it there, I probably saved the information somewhere and might be able to dig it out with a little effort. -- Katrina Knight kknight@epix.net Reading, PA ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================