Today was the day I finally caught up with a Slaty-backed Gull! A species I have tried for a few times now, but always came up short. Amazingly, two Slaty-backed Gulls have been down near the Brantford dump for a few days, so I decided to make the trip down today to try my luck. I signed in at the weigh scales and drove to the designated viewing area. I ran into Dan Riley and Josh Vandermeulen as I was pulling in and we went looking for the birds together. We quickly picked one out among the hundreds of other gulls.
This is a very rare (but increasingly more regular) vagrant from northeastern Asia!
I snapped a few photos.
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| bird on the left is Slaty-backed, bird on the right is a Great Black-backed |
In addition to the star attraction, there were a few other interesting species including several Glaucous, Iceland and Lesser Black-backed Gulls.
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