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Request for Information => Birding Areas => Topic started by: jackbreakfast on December 10, 2011, 07:03:07 PM

Title: Looking for Bonaparte's Gulls
Post by: jackbreakfast on December 10, 2011, 07:03:07 PM

Hello there fine friends...
I am very interested in photographing Bonaparte's Gulls but don't know where to find them...
Any tips would be highly appreciated by y.t.
Does anyone know where they're hanging around this time of year?
I'm in Toronto but would certainly be willing to drive a couple of hours if need be...
I can't thank you enough for your help here...
All the best,
Jack Breakfast

Title: Re: Looking for Bonaparte's Gulls
Post by: thouc on December 10, 2011, 07:20:17 PM

There are lots of them along Niagara River now. Other rarer gulls too as a bonus.

Title: Re: Looking for Bonaparte's Gulls
Post by: worth on December 10, 2011, 08:06:18 PM

There were ~20 at Oshawa Second Marsh, or if not in the marsh but out on the Lake Ontario shoreline, on Thursday. Also on there were also some at Carruther's Creek Marsh at the foot of Shoal Point in Whitby.

Title: Re: Looking for Bonaparte's Gulls
Post by: Reuven_M on December 10, 2011, 09:50:58 PM

There are thousands on the Niagara river, photography opportunities aren't great but they do happen.

Title: Re: Looking for Bonaparte's Gulls
Post by: Kin Lau on December 12, 2011, 08:40:38 AM

They're still being reported at Presqu'ile Prov Park. They do fly around Owen Point, and land on the sandbar there, very close.

I don't see them being reported at Cobourg right now, but when they are there, they fly extremely close to the western breakwater.

Title: Re: Looking for Bonaparte's Gulls
Post by: jackbreakfast on December 12, 2011, 10:13:19 AM

Thank you, folks, for your help here, it's much appreciated...