Connecticut Common Gull 3-5-23
Last month my wife and went to visit our daughter in Rhode Island. That visit coincided with a Green-tailed Towhee visiting Sachuest Point Wildlife Refuge, a ten minute drive from our hotel. Despite the several hours over the span of a few days I never found the bird. I believe it was only seen once, very briefly, by someone else during my visit. Amazingly, a second green-tailed towhee, a sharp-dressed vagrant from the west, was also visiting Fairfield, CT. Since the location of that bird was barely three miles off of Interstate 95, we detoured there on our way home. Like the Rhode Island bird, I missed it by a day. Likewise, this latest visit also coincided with a rare bird sighting. Earlier in the week, a Common Gull was photographed at a state park only about 10 miles from my daughter’s apartment. I monitored the ABA rarity sightings during the week and the bird was not reported again. However there was one ...