There was a small group of gulls at Schoolhouse Pond today around noon.  The highlight was a crisply marked 1st winter Lesser Black-backed Gull, my first LBBG of the season at the pond.  Also present were 111 Laughing Gulls, 27 Ring-billed Gulls and 39 Herring Gulls.

Present this moring were three Bald Eagles (2 adults and 1 immature), 1 Pied-billed Grebe, 1 Coot, 5 Double-crested Cormorant, about 10 Northern Shovelers, and about 400 Canada Geese.  I'm hoping that the Jug Bay Ross's Goose will turn up here with the regular Canada Geese (as the Merkle Ross's Goose did in 2006), but so far no luck.

Fred Shaffer

Crofton, Anne Arundel