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| Canada Goose with white neck, Russelville Road, Amherst/Hadley line, MA, Dec 15, 2014 |
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| Canada Goose with white neck, Russelville Road, Amherst/Hadley line, MA, Dec 15, 2014 |
I
conducted a fruitless search today for the Black headed Gull seen yesterday in
Hadley. I checked briefly very early in
the morning and again for a short time in the early afternoon when I was on an
errand to the Hadley area. I checked
along Mill Valley Road, along South Maple Street, around UMASS and then various
fields in north Hadley. Most areas were
quiet with a small group of Ring billed Gulls on South Maple Street being the
only gulls around in that area. The
fields near Knightly Road on the Hadley/Amherst line held the most promise with
loads of geese, gulls and crows around.
Despite much effort to turn up the gull in among the other birds I had
no luck. The highlights there included
1348 Canada Geese (including an individual with a neck that was extensively white),
136 Ring billed Gulls and 142 American Crows.
No one else I heard from had any luck finding the gull either so who
knows if it is still around or not.
The
other highlight included a light phase Rough legged Hawk near the intersection
of Route 116 and Route 9. Unfortunately
I could not stop to get a photo of that bird but hopefully it will stick around
for the winter.
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