Hi all, I went to Union Springs Wednesday afternoon to look for the reported Little Gulls. Ann Mitchell and Susan Danskin were to join up later after work. I scanned quite a while from Frontenac Park enjoying the double digit numbers of BONAPARTE'S GULLS, COMMON TERNS, the occasional FORESTER'S TERN, CASPIAN TERN and near 1000 Double-crested CORMORANTS. The raucous calls of the terns and gulls made the area sound like the seashore. I saw one candidate, a few times, for an immature Little Gull flying over the Marina break wall, but needed a better look and was reluctant to call for any kind of success. Ann and Susan were scanning from the Marina at that time. After joining them to check out a gull they had picked out, buried in a sitting flock, we were treated to stellar views of the LITTLE GULL as movement cleared the view of one of the nearby docks. As sometimes happens I reached for my phone to get a photo and it picked up to fly out over the lake. The other gulls flew when someone walked out and around the wall. We never saw a second Little Gull, but with all the birds on that end of the lake it isn't surprising. Two perch fishermen had earlier told me that many more "little gulls" were on the lake north of the point in Union Springs.
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