Fwd: banded gull

[Bill Blauvelt]

I have found three different banded Herring Gulls this year. Two of them were found at Deering Oaks Park in Portland last Friday.

BBN was born on the Portland Library, summer of 2015.  It was seen in late-Sept of 2015 in Deering Oaks Park. I saw it again on 6-24-16 at Deering Oaks Park.

https://flic.kr/p/JxMYxT

AHS was born in the 2013 summer on the JB Brown roof, which is close to Portland Pie. My sighting on 6-24 at Deering Oaks Park in Portland was the  1^st re-sight of this bird.

https://flic.kr/p/HBGfdW

Herring Gull AJX  was banded as a chick in 2014 on the roof-top of MECA (Maine College of Art) on Congress Street in Portland by Noah Perlut. I saw it on 3-27-16 at Evergreen Cemetery in Portland.

https://flic.kr/p/HyYCiG

I don't think I can look at a gull any more without checking out the legs.

Bill Blauvelt

Portland, Maine

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From: Noah Perlut <npe...@une.edu>
Date: Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 8:06 PM
Subject: RE: banded gull
To: Bill Blauvelt <bil.bl...@gmail.com>

Hi Bill-

 

AHS was born in the 2013 summer on the JB Brown roof, which is close to Portland Pie.  1^st resight of this bird.  Very nice.

Thanks,

 

noah

 

From: Bill Blauvelt [mailto:bil.bl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2016 5:03 PM
To: Noah Perlut <npe...@une.edu>
Subject: Re: banded gull

 

Noah,

Here is the 2nd gull that I saw at the same time as BBN. It was on the little Island and I couldn't get a clear picture.

Bill Blauvelt

Portland, ME

 

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Noah Perlut <npe...@une.edu> wrote:

Thanks Bill. No, nothing unusual. I just like to know what they are up to. 

 

Noah

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On May 31, 2016, at 4:24 PM, Bill Blauvelt <bil.bl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Noah,

I just added the pictures I have to my Flicker page in an album called Banded Herring Gull. I go to Evergreen several times a month. If I see it again, is there anything you would like in the way of notes or photos?

 

https://flic.kr/p/HHAmRn

 

Bill

 

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Noah Perlut <npe...@une.edu> wrote:

Hi Bill,

 

Thanks for reporting the banded gull.  I banded that gull as a chick in 2014 on the roof-top of MECA (Maine College of Art) on Congress Street in Portland.  Can you please tell me more specifically where you saw it and what it was up to?  Incidentally, it was seen in the duck pond at Evergreen Cemetery in late-March.

 

noah

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[brad woodward]

It certainly can be interesting to find and report banded birds.  I photographed a banded (actually flagged) semi-palmated sandpiper in Ogunquit two weeks that turns out to have been banded in northern Brazil in January of 2014 by researchers from Cape May, NJ.