NH.Birds for Monday, November 30, 2009

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Subject: CBC list
From: "Bird Records" <BRecords(AT)NHAudubon.org>
Date: 30 Nov 2009 2:17pm

Christmas Bird Counts are coming up soon. 
A list of NH counts, their dates, and the people to contact is on the New
Hampshire Bird Records web site at:
http://www.nhbirdrecords.org/birding/CBC.htm 

The Winter issue of New Hampshire Bird Records has highlights and the full
results of the NH counts. You can subscribe on the web site for your copy.
Contact us if you're interested in purchasing back issues of any winter issue.

Happing winter birding,
the New Hampshire Bird Records team


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Subject: 11/30 Rochester WWTF - probable Thayer's Gull
From: Benjamin Griffith <bgriffith(AT)gmail.com>
Date: 30 Nov 2009 9:22pm

Lauren Kras and I birded the Rochester Wastewater Treatment Facility
this morning, hoping for some good gull action.   The highlight was a
probable juvenile THAYER'S GULL.  This bird was on the "Herring-like"
end of the spectrum but structure recalled Iceland, with a very
rounded head and long-primaried appearance.  Plumage features
supporting Thayer's included obvious white edges to the primary tips,
apparently, uniform pale underprimaries and pale inner webs to the
primaries.  I'm hesitant to call it for certain because I haven't had
a chance to thoroughly look through photos of the bird, and this bird
was darker than any juvenile Thayer's I'd ever seen.  Lauren or I will
post photos some time tomorrow.

Other highlights:

Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 first winter/juvenile
Iceland Gull - 6 at Rochester, PLUS 3 in Farmington at the Guineafowl Farm
Snow Bunting - 2

Ben Griffith and Lauren Kras
Dover, NH