THANK YOU ANDREW for your posting (below) to the NYS bird list! We all know dozens, maybe hundreds, of birders planning their weekend travels around the status of this gull in NYC! Thank you and everybody who posts any positive or negative information about seeing this mega-rarity today, tomorrow, monday, etc. Tom Robben 1pm saturday august 6 Glastonbury CT
=========================== *Subject: 8/6 Status of GHGU on Coney Island Beach...* From: Andrew Baksh <birdingdude AT gmail.com> Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 12:45:51 -0400 If you are out looking or have already given it a go for the Gray-hooded Gull at Coney Island Beach, please post an update regardless if it is negative. If you do not have access to post on the list serve, please send me an update via e-mail and I will gladly post it. Updates on the status of the GHGU, will help a great deal for those who are planning on making a trip to try for the bird. Thank You Andrew Baksh Queens NYwww.birdingdude.blogspot.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --