[TN-Bird] Glaucous Gull refound

From: "Scott Somershoe" <Scott.Somershoe@xxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:13:58 -0600
Thanks to Chris Sloan for posting about us relocating the Glaucous Gull at 
Tennessee NWR, Duck River Unit this morning.  

Ed Schneider and I located the bird on the river just south of the island with 
all the Great Blue Heron nests (to the right as you face the island).  It was 
originally seen loafing on the mud flats with several hundred ring-billed gulls 
but it swam off and then flew off and disappeared.  We got to view the bird for 
only a few minutes before it was gone.  The bird was completely white, and in a 
fleeting moment of calm winds, I could see the bicolored bill.  At one point 
the bird was swimming next to a ring-billed gull, which gave a nice size 
comparison. It was about the size of a herring gull, if not a little larger.  
The bird flew downstream a minute later and was gone.  I managed a series of 
ridiculous distant photos of a white blob flying away.  

Chris said the bird flew downstream and didn't return on Saturday, but it must 
be occasionally coming back to this mud flat.  We searched through the gull 
flocks a couple times in the morning with no luck.  Actually, I think the third 
time was the charm on this one!

We didn't find a LeConte's sparrow (not from the lack of trying), but we did 
have 7 blue-winged teal from the observation blind and a lesser yellowlegs 
flyby.

Good birding!
Scott Somershoe 





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