"Rare gull stirs birder influx to Bay State; Arctic native seen in two locations" by Martin Finucane, Globe Staff | January 21, 2009
The ivory gull sighted in Gloucester. It and a second bird, spotted in Plymouth this week, are the first found in Massachusetts the state in more than two decades. The species usually winters on ice north of Newfoundland, ornithologists said. (Jeremiah Trimble)
While many people were inside trying to keep warm Saturday morning, bird-watcher Jeremiah Trimble was stepping out of his car at Eastern Point Lighthouse in Gloucester to look at the line of gulls perched on the breakwater. It was "absolutely freezing," he said. But what he saw through his binoculars at about 11:30 a.m. was well worth the pain.
Yup, it is single digits again this morning.
"The 10th bird I saw was a small, pure white gull. It was a long ways off, but I was pretty confident in what it was," said Trimble, 30, of Cambridge. "I thought, 'Wow, this is an ivory gull!' "
It was the first Massachusetts sighting of the species, which usually makes its home in the high Arctic, in more than two decades, according to officials at the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Hundreds of bird-watchers have been flocking to Gloucester since Saturday to see it.
While the Gloucester bird was in sight, a second ivory gull was spotted yesterday in Plymouth, stirring even more excitement among birders.... The bird rarely comes south of the Bering Sea or Canada's Maritime Provinces and typically spends the winter on ice north of Newfoundland.
I think the little guy is TELLING US SOMETHING, don't you?
"The ivory gull is about as northern a bird as you can imagine. They really are associated with pack ice and Arctic oceans," said Wayne Petersen, director of the society's Massachusetts Important Bird Areas Program.... Petersen said it is not clear what brought the two gulls to Massachusetts, but the journey was probably triggered by something in their normal habitat, such as bad weather or a food shortage....
Yeah, ANYTHING but GLOBAL COOLING!!!!
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Ahem!!!
"This month's temperatures are running 3 to 4 degrees colder than normal"
Yeah, TELL ME ABOUT IT (brrrrr)!
"The EPA attributed the decrease to fewer days with temperatures exceeding 90 degrees"
Yeah, anecdotally, I didn't haul out the fan as much.
Also read: Global Warming Causes Global Cooling
Also see Climate Change Causes Power Blackouts and related links within for more as well as the AmeriKan MSM's Long, Slow, Ceaseless Fart.
Please STOP the LYING AGENDA-PUSHING, you harmful bastards!
