[birdky] RPT: Laughing Gull at the Falls of the Ohio

  • From: "Palmer-Ball, Brainard (EEC)" <Brainard.Palmer-Ball@xxxxxx>
  • To: "BIRDKY" <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:14:51 -0400

About 200 EDT this afternoon, Del Striegel found a Laughing Gull at the Falls 
of the Ohio with about 100 Ring-billed Gulls. It is a nicely plumaged adult and 
was still there about 415.
 
Today I finally got a few pictures of the surreal-looking adult male 
White-winged Scoter that has been down on the river just above the Falls for 
several weeks; the second bird is still in his company; the red coming in on 
its bill suggests it is an imm. male, but it still has a brown eye.
 
A couple of days ago in the same location there was a bird that must have been 
a hybrid Lesser Scaup x Ring-necked Duck. It had light gray sides, a "funny" 
shaped head, and a very obvious white ring around the bill out near the tip.
 
bpb, Frankfort

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