Saturday morning, the extensive mud flats at the mouth of Hunting Creek
held a nice diversity of gulls (although the numbers were not
particularly impressive).
21 Jan 2006: 0830 to 0945 EST; scoping flats to E and W from the GW
Parkway Bridge; 9 C; S 10 to 25 km/hr; increasingly overcast; low tide
at c 0620, but the flats were still largely exposed when I left;
numbers to E / to W
Canada Goose 590 / 30
American Black Duck -- / 2
Mallard 6 / 14
Common Merganser 18 / ---
Bald Eagle 6 / --- [3 ad; 3rd yr;
2nd yr; 1st yr]
Peregrine 1 / --- [seemed to be
surprisingly small; male]
Killdeer --- / 1
Ring-Billed Gull 220 / 185
California Gull 1 / --- [adult, basic]
[from its appearance, the bird that was found here on 8 January by
Rob Hilton]
Herring Gull 45 / 6
Lesser Black-Backed Gull 1 / --- [adult, basic]
Great Black-Backed Gull 28 / 3
. . .
Sherman Suter
Alexandria VA 22307
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Sherman Suter, Ph.D.
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