Yesterday evening about 7pm I biked on the Cayuga Waterfront Trail alongside Cayuga Inlet through Cass Park to Allan H Treman State Marine Park. Along the way there were hundreds of Ring-billed Gulls milling about overhead. They stayed about 50-150â up and were mainly over land, not the water. As they circled, each would occasionally flap faster a few times, then spread and lower its tail to slow down and even drop its feet while stretching its head and neck up to snap at some invisible-to-me aerial food. I wonder what was numerous and nutritious and easy enough to catch that it attracted the attention of so many gulls. I saw a few dragonflies as well, but they seemed to stay at a lower altitude. On my return trip around 8pm the event was over. I had been checking the White Lighthouse Jetty in case the Laughing Gulls that had been ousted from Myers Point by people using the park had wandered to the south end of the lake, but I saw no unusual gulls on the jetty nor in the water.
The nearly adult Great Black-backed Gull which was banded in 2019 on Appledore Island off the coast of the Maine-New Hampshire border (â4JFâ in white on a black band on its left leg) and which has been here all through winter and summer, remains here. It has a dark smudge on the tip of its upper bill. In the last few days it has been joined by a few actual adults with clean yellow bills. - - Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
