Several birders have now seen the adult Mew Gull just off the parking lot at the northwest corner of Cobourg harbour, found earlier today, March 23, by Sarah Petrasek. It stands on the beach from time to time or swims a few metres into the water. Mantle colour very little darker than the nearby, bigger, Ring-billeds, neat small yellow bill and dark eye, big white tertial crescent. Still there at 12.30. Not the same bird as the darker-mantled Mew Gull in the harbour in mid-February!
Directions: Exit 474 from Hwy 401 and south on Division Street to the harbour. Drive round the harbour to the west parking lot. Margaret Bain Cobourg mjcb...@sympatico.ca _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
