Hi all,


   Earlier today I was with Leslie Starr and part of day with Dan Haas looking for the gull.  Leslie wasn't sure about my sightings.  It was farther out.  But she thought she saw the bird before my arrival.  

At the south beach area with Leslie, I had a smaller gull compare to 50+ laughing gulls around with head tucked in. It does have half hood, large bold white eye ring visible, whitish hind neck compare to grey on laughing, small bill compare to many laughing's long bill with slight droop at tip and overall bit smaller than Laughing. Not seen afterward with few gulls that took flights.  Later possible same bird on the bay to the SE, half blackish hood and small bill.  



Sandy Point State Park - 710am-945am

Canada Goose - 21
Wood Duck - 3
Mallard - 8
Bufflehead - 2 (pair, north side)
Double-crested Cormorant - 79
Great Blue Heron - 2
Black Vulture - 3
Turkey Vulture - 4
Bald Eagle - 1
Sanderling - 2 (north side)
Bonaparte's Gull - 1 (flew to the south)
Laughing Gull - 53 (none had half blackish hood)
FRANKLIN'S GULL - 1 (2nd cycle)
Ring-billed Gull - 40
Herring Gull - 39
Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 (adult)
Great Black-backed Gull - 18
Royal Tern - 2 (flew into south beach from the north before we left)
Forster's Tern - 7
Rock Pigeon - 4
Mourning Dove - 5
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Blue Jay - 1
American Crow - 4 (tower on overpass)
Fish Crow - 9
Tree Swallow - 12
Carolina Chickadee - 2
Tufted Titmouse - 3
Marsh Wren - 1
American Robin - 3
Northern Mockingbird - 1
European Starling - 95
American Pipit - 1 (flyover, calling)
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 14
Song Sparrow - 3
Northern Cardinal - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 12
Common Grackle - 13
Brown-headed Cowbird - 3
House Finch - 11 (flyovers)
Pine Siskin - 4 (flyover, over treetops)
American Goldfinch - 16 (few flyovers)
House Sparrow - 8 
44 species


   Kevin Graff
   Jarrettsville, MD