Subject: [Tweeters] Large movement of Bonaparte's Gulls on Puget Sound
Date: Apr 19 21:23:49 2011
From: Rolan Nelson - rnbuffle at yahoo.com


I'll join in!? Last weekend while searching in vain for the Little Gull at Point-No-Point,?I saw?nearly 1000 Boneys along the rip north of Vic Nelson's place.

Rolan Nelson
Fircrest, WA
rnbuffle at yahoo.com

--- On Tue, 4/19/11, Patricia Loesche <loes at uw.edu> wrote:


From: Patricia Loesche <loes at uw.edu>
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Large movement of Bonaparte's Gulls on Puget Sound
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 8:13 PM



Cool. On Friday 4/15,?between the Discovery Park lighthouse and Shilshole marina,?I observed a mixed flock of about 75 Bonaparte's and Mew gulls, in about equal numbers and mostly onshore. Also three flocks of Brant flying low over the water near the lighthouse and about 20 puddling near shore, 80-100 total -- far more than I saw during several visits there in the previous two weeks.


Patti Loesche
Seattle


On Apr 19, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Gary Smith wrote:




Big pulse of Bonaparte?s Gulls moving up the Sound right now.
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Last night around 7 pm I observed about 1,000 Bonaparte?s stretching a mile or more along a rip current from the Alki Point Lighthouse north and northeast into Elliott Bay ? about half in the air, mostly moving in from the south, and about half down on the water.? Of the latter, many were sort of hovering and pouncing on the surface, others sitting but also dabbling.? A few Mew Gulls were associating with the activity as well.
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This morning around 7:15 there were at least 150 Bonaparte?s on the water, also in a north mixed in with Brant, Mew Gulls, and Glaucous-winged gulls.? To the extent there was aerial activity this morning, they seemed to be picking up and flying back south of the Lighthouse.
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Good spring birding to you all.
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Gary T. Smith
Alki Point
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