Hi Everyone, I just returned home from watching an adult franklin's gull feeding in a field adjacent to McGeachy Pond just outside of Erieau. It was present the entire time that I was there, from 12:15 until 12:45. The field is currently being worked up by a tractor and there are about 200 ring-billed gulls as well as many black-bellied plover, ruddy turnstones, dunlin, etc. This is presumably the same bird that was found early this morning in a field about 2 km to the west. Take Erieau Rd southeast towards Erieau, turn right on Erie Shore Drive at McGeachy Pond and the field is on your right.
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