When writing about the second banded gull sighting I wrote the unfortunate words “after some research” in regards to how I found The Gulls of Appeldore blog and who was responsible for the Gull banding program.
One of our readers “Dana” takes offense to me stating that I did any research and for me being responsible for tracking down the Gulls of Appledore blog and Dr Julie Ellis who headed the gull banding program.
She/He? writes in a comment on the post-
“after some research”??
I contacted Dr. Ellis and she contacted you.
What research!!?
I must apologize because in my haste and trying to get out 8-12 strong posts to entertain our readership sometimes I write things quickly to bang out a post. I honestly don’t remember how it all went down and if Dana says that she got me in touch with the Gulls of Appledore blog and Dr Julie Ellis I’ll take Her/His? word for it.
The day of the first banded gull discovery I do remember trying to pinpoint where they were coming from and doing a good amount of research using google with the keywords “Gull Banding” and I do remember coming across several different websites that had gull banding programs but I couldn’t pinpoint exactly which one was responsible for the particular band that was on the first gull I photographed with the black lettered band. It was at that point that I asked for help on the blog and Dana responded in the comment section of that post telling me that it was Dr Julie Ellis.
The first banded gull caught by the GMG lens-
Dana tells me that Dr Ellis contacted me but I have no recollection of ever having any contact with Dr Ellis. I was contacted by the person who is filling doing the posting on The Gulls of Appeldore Sarah Courchesne who wrote after I left a comment on the Gulls of Appledore Blog about my find-
Hi Joey–
I work with Julie Ellis who runs the gull banding project. I’ve been helping her out with her blog, and I wanted to let you know that I just posted on OK9, and linked to your blog. Thanks for reporting on the bird, and your blog is awesome!
Sarah
So just in case my memory is off which I will freely admit could entirely be the case as my memory is HORRIBLE, I would like to make sure that DANA gets full credit for giving me the heads up that indeed it was him/her? that alerted me to the fact that the banded gulls were banded by no other than Dr Julie Ellis.
Thank You Dana for bringing this to my attention.
-Joey
the second banded gull caught by the GMG lens-
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