Reported as early as 830 this morning , and later
( Not an easy bird to pick out even with scope)
- Reported Feb 15, 2021 09:52 by MI YU
- Prospect Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6602841,-73.9689534&ll=40.6602841,-73.9689534
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S81618213
- Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing, amongst the loafing ring-billed gulls on the frozen lake. Smaller than rbgu, with finer black-tipped, dull gray-yellow bill. Fairly clean, unmarked breast to belly separates it from the other mew subspecies? On the saddle, a mix of brown juvenal scapulars and 1st winter blue-gray feathers. Dark flecks on the undertail coverts. Dark primaries, brown tertials, and pale gray greater coverts."
Mew Gull (European) (Larus canus canus) (1)
- Reported Feb 15, 2021 07:54 by Doug Gochfeld- Prospect Park--Prospect Lake, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF
- Comments: "***Very rare. Continuing (semi-regularly) immature on the lake since at least its first detection here a week ago (Feb. 9). Today it was likely buried in the flock of ~220 RBGU when I arrived, and I first picked it out at ~08:08, though I could only see it from the neck up. It disappeared for a while (it seemed to sit down in the middle of the flock, and was completely invisible. Around 08:40 it re-emerged, flew around the lake in pursuit of, and then being pursued by, a young RBGU, and then was perched in good view for a long time. It bathed for a while, then buried itself in the flock where it was virtually unfindable for a long while. Was refound in the open after the entire flock upped and then re-settled, at which point all birders present got great scope views and I had to leave. Heard from others that it was still present when the rest of the birders all left at 11:10, but no word beyond that. For those trying to see this bird, a scope is indispensable."
