As far as I know, it was not seen at all today. I was there from morning to about 3 pm. 😕
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 12:16 PM Susan Joseph <[email protected]> wrote: > No Ross's Gull has been seen so far today. Birders were at both the boat > launch and the causeway by 7:00. It was snowing until about 11:30am and > visibility > was poor all morning. A very small area of open water persists near the > launch and a more generous amount is open at the causeway. Nice clearing > of weather during the past 45 minutes has not produced a sighting. > > Susan Joseph > Rhinebeck > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 3, 2017, at 11:34 AM, John Zucker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Any word on the Ross's Gull this morning? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 2, 2017, at 11:19 AM, Sean Sime <[email protected]> wrote: > > Shane Blodgett, Eric Miller and I made the pilgrimage to Tupper Lake > yesterday and were not disappointed. The Ross's Gull was present and active > from the time of our arrival at 7:30am until we left the boat launch > roughly 90 minutes later in search of other regional specialties (and blood > flow). The bird actively bathed and preened in a small channel of open > water in between feeding forays to various frozen chunks of fish near the > houses north of the town boat launch. It's only company were an occasional > flyover Raven or Bald Eagle and two otters. > We stopped at a number of locations in the area and were able to spend > time with other good birds including Barred Owl, Evening Grosbeak, Northern > Shrike and Gray Jay. Links to Ebird checklists with location info and > photos are listed below. > > http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S34087482 > http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S34087713 > http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S34106822 > http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S34106717 > http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S34106927 > > It is always great to be in the north country and our day was a pleasant > one, but I do find it necessary to mention this. While scoping the bird > from the roadside near the houses north of the boat launch it was easy to > see which property people trespassed on last weekend. The homeowner has > gone to great lengths to mark his property and hang rope with "No > Trespassing" signs across access to the lake. When a man emerged from the > house our "good morning" was met with silence. From our conversations with > locals at lunch it seemed pretty clear that this homeowner will likely not > be a friend of the birding community anytime soon. Please be respectful out > there. > > We also learned there is an ice fishing festival there this weekend and > they are expecting a huge influx of fisherman (estimate of hundreds people > on the lake). This could possibly mean more disturbance for the bird, but > it is unclear if the bird finds human activity disturbing or not. 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