In my accounting of birds in Somerville, I've been a bit remiss in not giving any attention to the Mystic. Lately I've made a few trips down there to see what there is to be seen. The swans are so prominent you can see them from the highway, but there's actually a good variety of other aquatic birds. This morning there were several kinds of gulls, a flotilla of Canada geese, a couple of coots, a red-breasted merganser, some mallards, and a trio of buffleheads.
In the picture above, you can see a flock of ring-billed gulls surrounding a juvenile herring gull, which you'll notice is banded on the leg. If anyone was looking for Gull 8R5... why, there it is.
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