[texbirds] Summering Lesser Black-backed Gulls: UTC - June-July - bird heavens

From: MBB22222@xxxxxxx
To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 19:19:06 -0400 (EDT)

It seems that only photos (!) might (sure, sometimes might not) convince  
some people about reported records. In another posts I mentioned that there 
was  maximum of 4 (but really at least 4) in June and max of 2 in July (so 
far) LBBGs  seen in groups together. So here is photo from June 8, 2013 - how 
many LBBGs can  you see? They took off and I did not have time to follow 
them (too many terns  were there) to take more photos of all of them. 
 
http://www.pbase.com/mbb/image/151375813/original
 
And here easy to see 2 LBBGs - July 10, 2013
 
http://www.pbase.com/image/151375791
 
I already mentioned that during summer on UTC very few people can be seen  
birding or photographing anything. There is one more reason for under 
reporting  some species. Most birders and photographers have tendency to visit 
well known  spots or try to chase birds already reported (also usually in well 
known spots).  But there are many, many virgin spots not visited by birders 
or photographers,  and fishermen go there rarely as well. Those spots are 
often bird heavens. There  is plenty of food and peace. Would you blame birds 
for choosing those spots? I  don't. 
 
So how many LBBGs are summering in Texas? We frankly  do not know. I  only 
have seen subadults but would love to see record of well photographed  adult.
 
Mark B Bartosik
Houston, Texas
http://www.pbase.com/mbb/from_the_field
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[texbirds] Summering Lesser Black-backed Gulls: UTC - June-July - bird heavens

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