While driving home yesterday, I noticed a flock of juncos and sparrows that flushed from the opposite side of the road. I turned around and waited and they soon returned. With the juncos were 15 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS. This was on Youngstown-Wilson Road in the Town of Porter, Niagara County, close to the Niagara Frontier Country Club.
Along the middle of Hulbert Road in the Town of Wilson, there was a pure flock of seven LAPLAND LONGSPURS, also feeding on the road shoulder. Earlier I had what appeared to be a HERRING X GLAUCOUS GULL hybrid on the roosting rocks, visible from Devils Hole State Park. It was larger than the Herring Gulls with a vaguely paler mantle, slightly paler wingtips, and larger white primary apical spots. It slept for the entire time that I observed it. Good birding! Willie ------------------ Willie D'Anna Wilson, NY dannapotterATroadrunner.com Willie's photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/107683885@N07/ -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
