Hi All, In the flickr link below is one of Nadir's better photos of this bird. I don't have much experience with the mew/common gull complex, but to me this bird appears to be a rather heavily mottled, pale-billed ring-billed gull. The bill doesn't strike me as very fine, nor the head very rounded.
Also in the link are some Great Gray Owl photos I took this weekend near Montreal. Around the Morgan Arboretum and Cape Saint Jacques, about half an hour west of downtown, there are a series of field complexes where some fellow Western MA student birders and I had some incredible encounters with four entirely tame Great Grays. Though not in New York, I'd strongly recommend the trip. In the same area we encountered hundreds of Bohemian Waxwings and a few Hoary Redpolls as well. http://www.flickr.com/photos/58638795@N08/ Good Birding, Jacob Drucker Manhattan, NY/Amherst, MA > ere, it is best to enter the park via 5th avenue or Central Park West and > 96th St. It was best viewed just W. of the pump house from the jogging path. > > Good luck, > Nadir Souirgi > > > > -- > > 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/ > > -- > -- 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/ --
