Before I went to the Ocean State Bird Club event "Birds and Beer" last night at Whalers I did some quick birding. It was brutally windy and (surprise) I was wearing shorts. I stopped at Scarborough Beach in Narragansett to see if any of the four reported Black Headed Gulls were around. I saw three of them. Two of them were molted and had their full black head. The other one still had some feathers that needed to grow in. Black Headed Gulls though rare in the United States are a regular winter visitor at Scarborough Beach because they are attracted to sewer treatment plants. There is one such plant next to the south end of the beach by the Sheep's pen.
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