[NatureNS] Bonepart's Gull at Sullivan's Pond

Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:06:34 -0400 (AST)
From: Pat McKay <ah205@chebucto.ns.ca>
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Hello All,

Yesterday afternoon was a great day for studying the gulls at
Sullivan's Pond. There were a vast number of them there sitting on the
ice, and as well as all the usual visitors such as Herring, Greater
Black Backed, Ring Billed, Iceland, there was a solitary Bonepart's
Gull in amongst a goodly flock of Black headed Gulls. 

The Bonepart's Gull was easy to pick out by his smaller size, pink
coloured legs and black bill. I managed a couple of distant photos of
him with zoom up to the max on my small digital camera, so not great
quality, but enough to make out what he was. Then the Bald Eagle did a
fly past, and all the gulls took to the air en masse in a wonderful
swirling cloud of gulls. Even my daughter was impressed!

Cheers,
Pat

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