Justin,
A few of us had the same experience early this morning with the western flying
south down the beach about 200 yards and sitting on the beach.
Came back pretty quick though. Surprising how much traffic this bird tolerated
this morning and comfortable too.
Dennis Cooke
Sent from Surface
From: Justin Bosler
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2018 6:47 PM
To: Texbirds
Texbirds,
I just spent the afternoon with the WESTERN GULL and company. It's a very
accommodating bird as long as people aren't intentionally flushing the birds
around, which happens fairly frequently.
The good news is that it seems comfortable there, always returning to the tidal
pool by the base of the jetty. I just set up shop there for about 3 hours. When
it did fly off it went just a short ways south on the beach, and never going
beyond the pier.
A great diversity of larids visits the tidal pool throughout the day, with at
least 6 Lesser black-backed Gulls and no less than two dozen Herring Gulls. Two
surprise birds were a BARN OWL riding a tanker ship and a unhealthy juvenile
Baird's Sandpiper arriving late to the pool.
Good luck chasing!
Justin Bosler
currently in Calallen, TX
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 6:54 PM Bob Friedrichs <bird.fried@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Andrew,
Awesome bird!!!! And very cooperative as you say. Thanks for finding and
reporting!
When I was there it was really working over a Gafftop Catfish carcass near the
lagoon and aggressively defending its meal from HEGUs. Then it took a bath and
preened. Like the other Gulls and Terns it was not at all concerned about the
fishermen on the jetties or cars driving back and forth. Still present at
6:45pm.
Bob Friedrichs
Palacios
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On Oct 25, 2018, at 4:21 PM, Andrew M. Orgill <aorgill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at
Just before 1:00 today, I found an interesting 2cy gull at the Port Aransas
South Jetty. Extensively photographed and Martin Reid and Willie Sekula
agree it is a Western Gull. The bird did not seem terrible skittish and
seems totally chase-able. Will upload photos to ebird and Texbirds Facebook
group tonight.
