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Re: North East Town Park Gulls

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Dave Pardoe

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Maryland Birds & Birding

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Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:46:01 -0500

Where exactly is the "town park"?




On 2/18/05 5:51 PM, "sean mccandless" <> wrote:

> Hello everyone. I just got back from another stop into the town park and was
> very disappointed at first. The Ice was all gone and there was about 400 gulls
> either sitting on the grass or bouncing around in the harbor. All Ring-billed
> Gulls. 
> This was around 4:25. There was a flock of about 1000 gulls about 2 miles out.
> I figured that was the flock I wanted to see so I just gave up. I packed it up
> and 
> started to head out when I saw a steady stream of gulls heading down from the
> landfill in my direction. So I stopped, got out and started scanning the flow
> of gulls 
> which was about 5 to 6 birds wide and endlessly long. The second bird I set my
> eyes on was a first year Iceland. So I continued to scan, 5 minutes later the
> Glaucous Gull flew right over. Than about 2000 birds later, I had another
> Iceland. 
> Then there was 6 birds all chasing each other around in a different direction,
> one 
> of them had something the other birds wanted. Looked like a bagel.Anyway the
> one gull I was thinking was another White-winged Gull in the chase, became the
> first year Thayer's. So it seems that they have been getting later as the sun
> sets 
> later. This is the same thing that happened the other day at the park when I
> was 
> getting ready to leave. A steady stream was coming in and landing which may be
> why Hans only had one Iceland, and I had 3. Most of them landed between the
> bad 
> lighted green marker and inside the town park. One Iceland landed on the grass
> next too the pavilion. Oddly enough I had no Lesser Black-backed Gulls. They
> may 
> have been there but I wasn't really looking for them.
> Also present were about 2000 plus Common Mergansers. They were everywhere!
> Sean McCandless