The gulls spend the night out on the river.  All the gulls you see 
late in the afternoon gathering at Hains Pt are preparing to fly out to the 
Potomac to roost.

Paul Woodward
Fairfax City, VA


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From: "ALLPORT, Gary" <>
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Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 2:06 PM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] DC Tidal Basin and Anacostia this morning


Dear All

Frank Hawkins and I did the customary gentlemans' tour of DC points riverine 
this morning.  The Tidal Basin held about 600 gulls at dawn (unlike 
yesterday when there was zero gulls - where do they go to?) of which 90% 
were Herring Gulls but with one nice adult Lesser Black-backed Gull, which 
looked pretty similar to the one two weekends ago.