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Yard birds

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Warblerick

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Warblerick

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Sun, 15 May 2011 12:16:22 -0400

Morning all.
 This morning between 9:15 and about 9:30 I had a pair of what I think were adult plumaged Laughing Gulls, and an immature, fly right over my yard, fairly low, heading NW (they drifted slowly in from the SE). The adults had full black heads and flew with a steady, slow flapping alternating with glides. They didn't seem as buoyant as Bonapartes Gulls, though that was my first thought. The immature bird was a more brownish with no hint of an ear patch, as in Bonies. Either species would be a new yard bird, but I think they were Laughing Gulls. Just prior to that a Great Egret flew by heading east (towards the direction of Piney Run).

Also had my FOY E. Wood Pewee in the yard, as well as Indigo Buntings, both orioles, Grt Crested Flycatcher, E. Kingbirds, E. Towhee and a possible Grasshopper Sparrow which is still singing in the neighbors hay field, but I cannot hear. Alli was hearing it while we working in the garden (just finished), so maybe we'll go out later with the ipod.

Any thought on the gulls? Seems late for either species. I used to get Laughing Gulls regularly in late summer when we lived in Ashotn, but never had a spring record, so don't quite know what to make of these birds. The immature certainly resembled a Laugher though.


Rick Sussman
Woodbine,MD

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