I put Dan Cristol's information to good use on Sunday. I rode the free
ferry at Jamestown across and back and I got to see my first ever Lesser
Black-backed Gull. From Dan's description I expected that if I saw him at
all he
would be following the ferry with the hundred or so other gulls on the river.
And I would be trying to figure out how big he was and if the legs really
were yellow or I just really wanted them to be. And of course if it was an
immature bird, all bets were off. But I decided to give it a shot anyway.
As it turned out he was fully mature and sitting on a piling at the southern
dock right next to a Herring Gull and in full sunlight. And best of all his
legs were undoubtedly the color of French's mustard. Gotta love it.
I'll also report there were Great Black-backed Gulls, Ring-billed, Herring,
and Bonapartes, DC Cormorants, Bufflehead, Forsters Terns, Brown Pelicans,
Turkey and Black Vultures and one each Great Blue Heron, Red-tail Hawk, and
immature Bald Eagle.
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