Hello Tweeters,
I came back today with a three day stay in Walla Walla, and a distant look
at the Lesser- Black-backed Gull on the Walla Walla Delta River on Sunday
evening.I joined a group of birders 6 of them from the west side on Hussy
Road on Monday where whe all searched different sites for this elusive Gull
with no result.Than in the evening we all went to the Delta where more
birders from the Tri-City joined in, including reporters from a News
Paper, i believe was also from the Tri- city for a Front Cover Story about
this first record rare bird. We all stayed to dark,Mike Denny doing all the
bred throwing,since he got the best arm as a pitcher,We had hundreds of
gulls flying around , including the Adult Glaucous Gull.But some of the
Gulls standing far on the water edge( it was a low tide) did not comming to
feed on bred.It start to rain real hard ,so we all left with no one seeing
the Lesser-Black-backed Gull that day.Few Birders stayed to tuesday and
again we went to the Landfill where many Gulls was sighted in the distant
fields and also on Hussy Rd, but our Gull was absent.One note i mention
here ,what also was happen with the Slaty-backed Gull in Tacoma. When this
Gulls are comming to a new area, staying pretty close for maybe a short
time,to there get familliar in there surrounding than there getting harder
to find. (The Slaty-backed Gull is still here in Tacoma )

Highlights on this long trip where:
1Northern Saw-whet Owl Rooks Park Walla Walla
1 Northern Saw-whet Owl on Badger Mt. Winery
8 Wild Turkeys Mill Creek Rd Walla Walla
I Yellow -headed Blackbird hyw 12 Whitman

Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma
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