Hello, tweets.

Yesterday morning (11/27), Netta Smith and I watched 3 immature Bonaparte's Gulls at the Hayton Preserve, Fir Island, robbing from Dunlins. There were many hundreds of Dunlins and a fair number of Black-bellied Plovers feeding in the flooded field, and the three gulls perched among them or flew around. When one would see a Dunlin pull a large earthworm out of the ground, it would immediately give chase and would usually get the sandpiper to drop the worm fairly quickly, then gobble it up. This went on continuously for the half hour that we sat there watching them. I had never seen Bonaparte's in these fields before and never seen them as kleptoparasites, but there they were, a very special occasion.

We saw about 40 Eurasian Collared-Doves together in Bow and about 20 in Edison. They are taking over the Earth!
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