Late this afternoon, Garth Riley refound the SLATY-BACKED GULL on the rocks
a little ways above the falls on the Niagara River. Several of us made it to
Garth's location opposite the barge on the Canadian side and looked
downriver at the bird. Eventually it woke up, stretched a wing, and then
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A group of nine birders from Ontario and NY found a SLATY-BACKED GULL just
before noon today. We had a lengthy study of it perched and doing short
flights, seeing all of the field marks. It was too distant for flight shots
but we got some digiscoped images of it while perched. It appears to be a
