[birding] Glaucous Gull

[rich armstrong]

1. glen lindeman, 2 from salem audubon, carolyn bales , and i did indeed find a 1st winter GLAUCOUS GULL at the corvallis landfill. this is about 10 miles north of corvallis on 99 and left on coffin butte road.
2. there were probably 50 gulls there - mostly california & glaucous-winged as far as i could tell. there was 1 adult WESTERN GULL.
3. this next week or 2 will be excellent weeks to look for gulls at the dump because they are dumping right next to the road. (i asked k=in hq and they told me probably another 1-2 weeks of dumping there) so you can drive up coffin butte road and park at the hq or whatever the building is on the left. you can view the garbage very well from that point. the gulls were coming right to it at 1 point but spent most of the 2 hours just soaring around. 
4. they also will roost in the puddles in the field - drive past the hq and go right down the dead end road - the field on the left has some nice puddles and nanette arrived while all the gulls including the glaucous were sitting in the puddles resting.unfortunately they were too far away for me to try to id all of them.
5. when we left there were 3 glaucous-winged gulls on the pond next to toketie marsh, certainly another place to check.
6. while you are there you can bird toketie marsh where we had 4 CINAMON TEAL, 1 GREATER SCAUP among the ring-necks, and probably close to 50 SNIPE.
Rich Armstrong
541-753-1978
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Paula Vanderheul 
To: midvalleybirding 
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:51 AM
Subject: [birding] Glaucous Gull 


Hello Everyone,

Rich Armstrong just phoned to let us know that his birding group has a  first year GLAUCOUS GULL at the Coffin Butte landfill.

They are viewing it from the headquarters parking lot on Coffin Butte Road.  

Rich is leading a field trip this morning with the Salem Audubon Society at EE Wilson and Coffin Butte.



Paula Vanderheul
vanderp at peak.org


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