Howdy All,

I arrived at the St. Marys Fish Hatchery this morning at about 7:30 am.
Another birder from Detroit arrived just shortly before I did.  We
searched all the ponds and the eastern impoundments.  I repeated this at
least three times, and so did he.  Jill Bowers showed up and also helped
look, but we did not find the Sabine's Gull.  I also checked the east
side of the lake from the state park and the jetty at the marina at the
northeast corner of the lake.  There were gulls flying and feeding over
the lake, but I did not find the Sabine's Gull.  There were Herring and
Ring-billed Gulls on the jetty at the marina.  Other birders arrived,
including Andy Bess also from the Cincinnati area, and others, and they
were still looking when I left at about 9:40 am. It was a great run for
this Sabine's Gull.  Usually they are one-day wonders, thus the title
"Will-'o-the-wisp."  The one good thing about birding is that there will
be another day or chance for such an exciting event.  It is not a downer
to have missed this bird, but is exciting that there may be another
chance sometime in the future.  Maybe the bird will show up somewhere
south of Grand Lake St. Marys, like Buck Creek or Caesar Creek SP.
Maybe it is still somewhere on Grand Lake St Marys.  So, keeping on
looking.  One of the Willets was still present, along with Greater and
Lesser Yellowlegs, Pectoral, Least, Spotted, and Solitary Sandpiper,
some Sanderlings, and Killdeer and Semipalmated Plover.  There could
have been more shorebirds present but I didn't do a very thorough
search.

Jay

 

Jay G. Lehman

Cincinnati, OH

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