[wisb] Port Washington Kittiwake
- From: Petherick Chris <cpetherick@xxxxxx>
- To: Wisconsin Bird List Wisconsin Bird List <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:09:36 -0600
Hello,
I was in the vacinity today, so I stopped by to see if I could find
the Black Legged Kittiwake that was reported. From about 2:30 to 3:15
I watched as it flew around the river mouth/inlet just north of the
power plant in Port Washington. I was on the north side of the
channel and it flew within 15 to 20 feet of me on several occasions,
offering great views. As I watched this one and tried to continually
locate it as there were about 10 other gulls flying around I kept
thinking I had it only to notice that the one I was following had a
partially yellow bill, similar to a ring billed gull. However, the
rest of the body looked very similar to the Kittiwake from a marking/
coloration standpoint, which made me wonder on several occasions if
there were actually 2 Kittiwakes present in slightly different levels
of maturity or do Kittiwakes go from black bill to all yellow with no
in between? The second gull definitely had partial yellow/partial
black. I'd be curious to know if anyone else saw that and if so, what
they thought - Kittiwake versus Ringed Bill.
I did not see the long tailed ducks or the GBB Gull that was
mentioned, but I didn't have a scope to get a good look at the break
wall. Other species were hooded mergansers, red breasted mergansers,
coots, 2 common goldeneyes, Canada Geese and mallards.
Chris Petherick
Fox Point, Northeastern Milwaukee County
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