Sat 12 Jan 2008
Around 12:45 p.m. today (1/12) I was at Pierce Lake and saw a winter adult Lesser Black-backed Gull. It was out on the ice with Herring Gulls. It was slightly smaller than the Herring Gulls, and had yellow legs. I wonder if this is the same bird that Mary may have seen at 11:00, or maybe I need to go back out there and make sure of my identification! A Great Black-backed Gull would be the first record of that species in Winnebago County.
Other ducks seen by me that were not there at 11:00 were 2 Hooded Mergansers(a pair), and at least 4 Greater Scaup.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
[...] snow on the trails. Our next stop - Rock Cut State Park. We got there around nine and missed the Lesser Black-backed Gull and the Greater White-fronted Geese, but we did see many Canada Geese and Ring-billed and Herring [...]
January 13th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Well, we did not find as much (around the nine o'clock hour) but it was still fun!
January 13th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
[...] level on gull identification is terrible. Funny thing is, when we returned home we were informed a Lesser Black-backed Gull had been discovered a little while after we had left. Perhaps it wasn't there when we were or [...]