Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:16:24 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tom Stock Subject: Re: Glaucous Gull at Schoolhouse Pond MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Frank, Could you provide me (and any others who might not be in the know) with directions to the Pond? Also more details on your sighting - which day and at what time, e.g.? Thanks! Tom Stock Silver Spring In a message dated 2/3/2003 1:30:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, fshaffer@MNCPPC.STATE.MD.US writes: > After many months of looking over the large number of gulls at Schoolhouse > Pond, I finally turned up a 1st winter Glaucous Gull(!!)among the 1000+ > plus other gulls at the Pond. This bird was feeding at the edge of the ice > where the one remaining patch of open water is at the pond. The primaries > are completely white, as was the rest of the plumage. The bill was heavy > and pink, with a black tip. A spectacular bird, slightly larger than the > nearby Herring Gulls. I have searched the gulls at Schoolhouse Pond for a > Glaucous Gull long and hard without success until today. Regarding gull > numbers, I don't know about other areas, but there certainly hasn't been a > shortage of gulls at Schoolhouse Pond this winter. Most > days probably have > 800 or 900 or more (mostly Ring Billed and Herring). > > Fred Shaffer > Patuxent Bird Club > fshaffer3@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================