Saturday Wanderings

I started the day at Hillsdale Lake in Miami County, KS.  I was looking for the Glaucous Gull that has been reported there.  After much searching through the spotting scope, there it was; standing on the ice in the middle of the lake.  While too distant for good photographs, it was a very good bird for Kansas.  This is one of our largest gulls, and according to my best bird book, it rarely is found south of the Great Lakes and Massachusetts.   On the way home, I explored Baker Wetlands in Lawrence.   It was very windy and I only found 15 bird species, but one of those was new for the year – Swamp Sparrow.