[va-bird] Possible Sabine's Gull at CBBT


This received today from experienced birder Dave Freeland -

"I saw an adult Sabine's Gull in immaculate alternate plumage at 12:30 p.m. 
Monday, May 23, from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.  I was en route from my 
home on Merritt Island, FL, to our condo at Cape May, NJ.

I was driving north on the Bridge-Tunnel when the gull appeared just 50 feet 
to the ocean side between mileposts 6 and 7, flying parallel to me at eye 
level.  I first noted the white, slightly forked tail from the bird's rear, 
then 
-- as I caught up with it -- the "three-triangle" wing pattern -- black wedge 
toward the primaries, brownish-gray wedge closer to the body and forepart of 
the wing and white wedge down the wing's trailing edge -- became clear.  I was 
driving 50 mph, and obviously observing the bird without optics, but noted the 
dark hood as I passed its front end.  There is no doubt that it was a 
Sabine's, though I suspect they are seen regularly in this vicinity."


Ned Brinkley
Cape Charles, VA

 
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