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Hi all: Came across a group of ca. 60 gulls on the playing field at Shannon Park (Tufts Cove), among which were two spanking adult Laughing Gulls and a lingering 1st-summer Iceland Gull. The secret to finding gull gatherings there (as Bernard Burke has pointed out) is to go at high tide in bad weather - and better on weekends when there are no schoolkids wandering about. At Sullivans Pond, there was a single 1st-summer Black-headed Gull. Again, we ought to look for adults (breeding?) along the Salt-Marsh Trail, Cole Harbour. Of some interest is the fact that there were only two 1st-summer Gt. Bl.-backed Gulls in the Shannon Park group, whereas on the beach at Eastern Passage, there were about 40 GBBGs and only four Herring Gulls. I guess the GBBG is aptly named Larus marinus. At Hartlen Pt., harbourside beach, I flushed a single belated Ipswich Sparrow. People ought to look for this one later on; it might stay to breed with a Savannah, as one or two do in some summers. Cheers, Ian McLaren
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