Date:         Sat, 4 Dec 2004 13:04:29 -0800
Reply-To:     PAUL RANEY JR <raneyjr@PRODIGY.NET>
Sender:       Georgia Birders Online <GABO-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         PAUL RANEY JR <raneyjr@PRODIGY.NET>
Subject:      Thayers Gull  11/30     coastal birds 12/1 and 12/2
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Seasons Geetings:      The last few days were like a Birders Christmas.   The Thayers Gull
                Gull seen Tuesday 11/30 around noon spent most of the time perched on a ledge   well out over the water below the dam. Also, an immature Greater Black Backed Gull. Thursday I reached Jekyll Island about 3pm. White-winged Dove was under the feeder about 5pm with Mourning Doves and Eurasian-collared Doves. Brant and Snow Goose were easy to find but I found no Western Kingbird.  Friday I arrived on Tybee Island  at noon (high tide). No Glaucous Gull. 25 American Oystercatchers, 400 Black Skimmers, many Northern Gannets in easy binocular range diving onto the ocean, one adult Lesser Black-backed Gull, 3 immature Greater Black-backed Gulls, at least 4 Purple Sandpipers resting on the beach amoung 40 or 50 Ruddy Turnstones and other small sandpipers, one Piping Plover. An immature plover pale brownish above with dull grayish legs had me thinking Snowy, but photos show a relatively large stout bill like
Wilson's Plover, just an immature Wilson's.     Another good year for rare birds!
                          Paul Raney          Stockbridge, Ga
PS: the Tybee birds were behind the old fort and left way down the beach

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