Laughing Gull
“On May 12 I spotted three Laughing gulls on a rock outcropping just offshore along Crescent Beach State Park.”
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On May 12 I spotted three Laughing gulls on a rock outcropping just offshore along Crescent Beach State Park.
Other local mentionings include, on June 9 two clamorous Laughing Gulls flew over our house.
On April 27 a friend reported large numbers of Laughing Gulls gathered in Peables Cove at the mouth of the Alewife Brook.
On this same morning within Kettle Cove, I noted several Laughing Gulls, a plump of Brant sea geese, eleven Long-tailed Ducks and rafts of Black Scoters.
On the windy overcast day of May 20, I crept out onto the end of Dyer Point and found a single Brant, two Laughing Gulls and two Black-bellied Plovers hunkered down.
Other local sightings include two clamorous Laughing Gulls flying over our house on June 17—Maine’s only regularly nesting hooded gull—and, on June 18, a Brown Thrasher taking a spirited bath in a pool of water atop a thicket along the rocky shoreline off McKenney Point Road.