An adult, alternate plumage California Gull (fitting the description of
the bird reported by Michael Bowen on 23 March) was present among the
gull flock off the mouth of Hunting Creek around sunset on Sat, 27
March.
27 March 2004: 1800 to 1900 EST
scoping exposed flats and Potomac River from Stone Bridge (GW Parkway)
over Hunting Creek;
21 C, mostly cloudy; N-ly breeze 5 to 10 km/hr; low tide circa 1915;
very extensive flats both E and W of GW Parkway, but no larids to the
West; most of the gulls were in front of the Porto Vechio building and
not on the exposed flats due E of the bridge;
Pied-Billed Grebe 1
Double Crested Cormorant 2
Great Blue Heron 11
Canada Goose 34
Mallard 17
Osprey 4 (2 pairs; nests on pole S of Hunting Point Apts and on crane
on southern barge)
Bonaparte's Gull 17
Ring Billed Gull 920
California Gull 1 (adult, alternate)
Herring Gull 18
Great Black Backed Gull 45
...
Sherman Suter
Alexandria VA 22307
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