[wisb] Re: at least 2 Kittiwakes in Port Washington
- From: Seth Cutright <ferruginous.hawk82@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: willfitzbirder@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:31:23 -0600
This is interesting. When I first saw a Kittiewake it was on the
South side of the harbor where Joan posted about seeing. It was a
first year bird, all black bill, back neck band, black "M" back-wing
marking, and black tail band. I left that bird flying around and went
to the Restaurant parking lot.
Shortly after that Steve Lubahn came by and asked if I had seen the
gull yet. I said yes and then he told me he was watching one from the
parking lot just next to/South of the restaurant parking lot. So I
went over there and we watched this bird until just before 2:00pm. We
thought maybe it was the first bird that had just flown over to this
location. This bird flew west and then turned north and went behind
the North walk way wall and down out of site. We figured that it went
to sit on the water at this point. It now sounds from this below post
that it did.
The bird Steve and I watched was also a first year bird.
Seth Cutright
West Bend, Ozaukee County
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Will Fitzsimmons
<willfitzbirder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I watched a juv/1st cycle BL Kittiwake from the unpaved public parking lot
> right next to the restaurant from 2:10 till 3:00pm today. This bird remained
> on the water the whole time never taking flight. It was with a group of about
> 4-5 other gulls about 70 yards off the rocky shore of the water treatment
> plant which is directly below the angled parking lot of Upper Lake Park. Good
> scope views were obtained.
>
> In fact I was wondering why I didn't see any other birders while I was there,
> now I know they were south of the marina by the creek entrance looking at
> another bird - one that put on a great show with closer looks. So there are
> at least 2 juv. birds present and perhaps a third as Chris mentions.
>
> Like I said, "my bird" never took flight the whole time and I was there at
> the same time as a few other posters. I was in the location mentioned in the
> first post and thought I was on the only bird present.
>
> If anything, this will increase your odds of seeing this bird if you try.
> Good Luck.
> good birding,
>
> Will Fitzsimmons
> Washington county
>
> --- On Fri, 12/11/09, Petherick Chris <cpetherick@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> From: Petherick Chris <cpetherick@xxxxxx>
> Subject: [wisb] Port Washington Kittiwake
> To: "Wisconsin Bird List Wisconsin Bird List" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 11:09 PM
>
>
> 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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