tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598082801644870937.post629837460797350433..comments2024-01-23T00:30:11.355-05:00Comments on Looking Out from Central Massachusetts: The Ivory Gull -- YES!Sheila Carrollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05764581032115740431noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598082801644870937.post-2578759616441706662009-02-10T02:44:00.000-05:002009-02-10T02:44:00.000-05:00Great job with the Blog Sheila! I enjoyed your Tuf...Great job with the Blog Sheila! I enjoyed your Tufted Duck photos. I was at Apponoag Cove Monday but there was no sign of either the Tufted or the Hybrid. <BR/><BR/>Michelle St.Sauveur<BR/>Coventry, RIAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598082801644870937.post-7669949688181730162009-01-22T18:45:00.000-05:002009-01-22T18:45:00.000-05:00I was hoping your would get out to Gloucester and ...I was hoping your would get out to Gloucester and get some pictures. I am not nearly as adventerous as you are so I get my rare bird fixes through you. ;o)<BR/><BR/>What a lovely seagull. I had no idea birders where that intense. I can understand being excited, but one must never be rude about it. It gives birders a bad name IMO.<BR/><BR/>Can't wait for your next field trip. ;o)Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05539583838978744802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598082801644870937.post-46105219572791931272009-01-21T17:36:00.000-05:002009-01-21T17:36:00.000-05:00I have never been a "big time" twitcher, there are...I have never been a "big time" twitcher, there are certainly pros and cons of "the chase". Aside from getting the bird the pros are often times bumping into birders I've not seen in years. Aside from missing the bird, the cons are it can be a circus as you've said above...and some but not all get carried away. Saturday was not too bad, there were probably fewer people and the weekend snow hadn't yet fallen. Most pulled well off the road and other could pass.<BR/> One person got carried away and failed to pull all the way over blocking the road... another or maybe the same repeated to tell every one within ear shot he'd seen this..this...and the Ivory Gull within a few short hours...repeated over and over and over, until I was about ready to jump in Gloucester Harbor and drown myself or the other option. But, hey the guy was excited. <BR/>In contrast, Sunday I snowshoed Harvard Forest during the afternoon, the very peaceful solitude and only a short supply of winter residents as one might expect in a winter mature forest (more or less. But, from an outdoorsman's perspect it was no less gratifying than Saturday's Ivory Gull...only different. But, I suspect I'll remember my first Ivory Gull (an adult to boot) a lot longer than Sunday's walk or maybe the contrast of the two will always be linked together.<BR/>Hopefully things will be a bit more orderly now that the Plymouth bird was discovered and dilute the crowds.<BR/><BR/>Glad you guys got the bird.Tom Pirrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12399923571288826319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598082801644870937.post-25643828265405505042009-01-21T16:09:00.000-05:002009-01-21T16:09:00.000-05:00Please note in the photographs, the birder's cars ...Please note in the photographs, the birder's cars completely blocking the entrance to the Coast Guard facility and lighthouse, just out of sight to the left. Note the gate is clearly signed. We actually had one "caught out" birder try to say she didn't know there was a coastguard facility there. This with the gigantor lighthouse blocking out the sun.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598082801644870937.post-20823034963112217672009-01-21T12:46:00.000-05:002009-01-21T12:46:00.000-05:00Glad that you were able to get out and see the gul...Glad that you were able to get out and see the gull - and even better that you were treated to an almost private showing after having to deal with the chaos!Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05190981446326142452noreply@blogger.com