Ring-billed Gull (Code 1) 1 Jan 2015
Area: Abundant local non breeding resident, with huge flocks often congregating at Spruce Run for the evening and flying to a landfill in Pennsylvania each morning. Often seen on local fields, strip malls, and other bodies of water. Usually the most numerous gull in Hunterdon County.
Yard: Common flyover species, especially in the morning when small groups and occasionally larger flocks fly directly over house as move out into daytime foraging sites. Huge flock visible in distance leaving Spruce Run each morning to fly to Pennsylvania.
Audio: Birds moving overhead started calling in mid-March.
Flyovers, 21 March 2015