today we again drove along Veterans Pkwy around 10:30 AM under a bright sun. Not as many birds as on previous days but there was an adult great black-backed gull sitting on the our side of the river, in the company of two adult herring gulls. I am pretty sure it was the great bbg as its back was very black and it was a little bit larger than its companions.

Later on a male pileated woodpecker landed in my next door neighbor's maple tree. This was the first pileated I've seen in my neighborhood since last June.

Note: the black backed gulls are not lifebirds; we saw lots of them in Scotland in 2005.  but this winter was my first N. American sighting of the lbbg and the 2nd N. American sighting of the gbbg. (The first was near Pt. Pelee in Canada so it is my first USA sighting)

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