Glaucous Gull Oakland County 12-19

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Listers,
 
This morning there was an adult GLAUCOUS GULL in Auburn Hills. The  bird was 
visible from the very busy M-24 just north of Brown Road. This is  barely 
north of the Palace. 
 
On days when the dump is open, gulls often congregate in several areas on  
the east side of M-24 which have been dozed to prepare for future construction  
and this is where the GLAUCOUS GULL was today along with a few hundred  
Ring-billed/Herring Gulls. The best spot to view them from varies from day to  day 
as they never seem to be in the same spot but there are a number of parking  
lots in the assorted little industrial parks that make up the east side of M-24  
in the area. There are actually a couple of different landfills right in the  
vicinity there. The one up the hill from the Palace and another one about a 
mile  further up on the north side of the GM Assembly Plant. This is the only 
place in  Oakland that I have personally seen Great Black-backed Gulls.
 
On weekend days, the whole flock of thousands of gulls seems to disappear  
from the area. 
 
wish I was in L'Anse
 
Scott Jennex
Ferndale
 
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