I went to the Cornell compost this morning to see if I could find Anne Clark's wing-tagged Herring Gull. She found out that the bird she saw Sunday was a 12-year-old from Newfoundland. In her photos the gull had more dark on its bill than I expected, so I wanted to see if I could find it.
I couldn't stay long, but I did manage to find a wing-tagged Herring Gull in among the 500-or-so Herring Gulls there. But, it turns out that I had a different Newfoundland gull, banded last year as an adult in Witless Bay, Newfoundland. The only other banded gull I've identified from Ithaca was banded as a chick in the Thousand Islands area of the St. Lawrence. It's fun to know where our winter visitors come from ! Kevin -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
