Newsgroups: rec.birds
Path: utzoo!rising
From: rising@utzoo.uucp (Jim Rising)
Subject: Gulls at Niagara
Message-ID: <1989Nov28.191123.29838@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 89 19:11:23 GMT

This weekend many of us from Zoology at the Univ. Toronto went to 
the Niagara gorge for our annual gull trip.  Of course got the
"big four" (Herring, Ring-billed, Bonaparte's, and Great Black-
backed) in good numbers, and also saw 1 or 2 Little Gulls.  One
group did see a Thayer's Gull as well.  We also saw 2 Purple
Sandpipers, and flock after flock of Snow Buntings were flying
across Lake Ontario in the a.m.  In the p.m., we saw flock after
flock of Canvasback flying up the Niagara River (toward Lake Erie)--
mostly males (> 90%).  We also were pretty lucky on our "Carolinean
dickey-birds," getting good looks at Tufted Titmouse, Mockingbirds,
and Red-bellied Woodpeckers--missed Carolina Wren.

A good time was had by all, though it wasn't the best gull year
in memory.

--Jim Rising
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