Thursday, November 13, 2014

Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Black Skimmers and much more at Huguenot in Jacksonville, FL 11-4-14

One more follow up to my trip to Jacksonville, FL and Huguenot Memorial Park back in early November. The birding was great with several Lesser Black-backed Gulls (including one very dark-mantled bird - see pics), Great Black-backed Gulls, Ring-billed Gulls, Herring Gulls, Sandwich Terns, Royal Terns, Caspian Terns, Forster's Terns, Brown Pelicans, Double-crested Cormorants, Ruddy Turnstones, Sanderlings, Short-billed Dowitchers, Dunlin, Western Sandpipers, Piping Plovers, Semipalmated Plovers, Ospreys, and much more!

Black Skimmer and Royal Terns

Black Skimmer and Royal Terns

Herring Gull - adult

Laughing Gulls

Group of five Lesser Black-backed Gulls including an immature

Four Lessers (plus very dark-mantled bird), Great Black-backed, and an immature Laughing and Ring-billed Gull

Two Lessers including the bird with "black" mantle

Eight Lesser Black-backed Gulls a (one immature in foreground) nd a Great Black-backed

Lesser Black-backed Gulls

Immature Ring-billed Gull

Sanderling

Bottle-nosed Dolphin

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