Kelp Gull and others
Geoff Graff (ggraff@erols.com)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 20:30:15 -0500
As Elliot reported it earlier, it was a incredible bird. Before it took
off at 10:25am, the Kelp Gull was sitting on the piling at least 15 feet
away from us. I still think it was a Kelp Gull, we checked through the
Field Guide of Seabird of the World and nothing match the Lesser
Black-backed and Great Black-backed, and it match the Kelp Gull. Great
Black-backed Gull has a pink legs, the Lesser Black-backed Gull has a
yellow legs, and the Kelp we saw has yellow-green legs.
Other birds seen behind the restaurants:
42 Greater Scaup
68 Canvasback (hard to see, in the distance - use scope)
143 Common Goldeneye
164 Oldsquaw
50 Bufflehead
22 Ring-billed Gull
9 Herring Gull
1 Great Black-backed Gull
1 Kelp Gull* (winter adult)
1 Turkey Vulture
4 Belted Kingfisher (all headed upriver)
2 Am. Crow (woods area)
4 Fish Crow (feeding on dead fish at end of pier)
11 Ruby-crowned Kinglet (flyby north and several other small
unidentified birds flyby north)
1 Carolina Wren (heard by Elliot)
7 Brown-headed Cowbird
Kevin Graff
Baltimore, Md
ggraff@erols.com