For what it's worth, there are generally multiple thousands of Ring-billed Gulls on Coney Island Beach, just a couple of miles to the SE, as well as hundreds in the Sheepshead Bay and Marine Park area a little east of there. There are also usually a few hundred between the Owls Head wastewater plant and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Floyd Bennett Field's evening RBGU roost is in full effect at this point in the winter as well, as there were over 2000 there a week ago.
These all seem like potential alternate locations for the Mew Gull if it isn't showing at the Gravesend Bay location. The most likely alternate places in my mind, based on proximity and high concentrations of appropriately sized gulls, are Coney Island Creek Park (or anywhere in Coney Island Creek where there are gulls hanging out), Coney Island Beach, and the Owls Head Wastewater Plant. Good Birding -Doug Gochfeld. Brooklyn, NY. On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 7:11 PM, <pjlind...@optonline.net> wrote: > The Mew Gull present in recent days at Gravesend Bay, Brooklyn was > searched for extensively and at length today but not detected. > > Patricia Lindsay > Bay Shore, NY > > -- > > 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/ --
