Mike Denny, Merrylynn Denny, Ken Knittle, Milford Perrin, and I just spent an hour (10-11 am) observing and photographing a Lesser Black-backed Gull on the east side of the city of Walla Walla. The bird is in a flock of approximately 100 California and Ring-billed Gulls on Hussey Street, 0.25 miles south of Highway 12. Detailed description and photos will come later (probably tomorrow).

The bird responds nicely to chumming with popcorn and moldy bread.

This appears to be the same bird that the Dennys observed yesterday (Sunday) at sunset at the Walla Walla River delta. Mike plans to look for the bird at the delta again today between 3:30 and sunset. This will be a BYOMB event ("Bring Your Own Moldy Bread").

Jim

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Jim Nestler
Department of Biological Sciences
Walla Walla College
College Place WA 99324 USA
phone: 509-527-2551 fax: 509-527-2253
nestja at wwc.edu
http://homepages.wwc.edu/staff/nestja/
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