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Re: GULL'S
- To: Van Atkins <vatkins@awod.com>
- Subject: Re: GULL'S
- From: Florida Nature Tours <fnt@gdi.net>
- Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 10:52:59 -0500
- CC: carolinabirds@acpub.duke.edu
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Van,
What a great observation! In almost 40 years of birding & over 20
years of bird tour leading in Florida & elsewhere I never saw
anything like what you described. It just goes to show that gulls
can find food anywhere. I must be part gull myself.
Wes Biggs
Florida Nature Tours
fnt@gdi.net
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Van Atkins wrote:
>
> HI ALL:
> I was on the Isle of Palms today at Wild Dunes when I saw something that I
> had never witnessed before. A large group of Ring Bill Gulls were flying
> around in the road ahead of me, when I approached I found they were hovering
> (the best they could) at the seed pods of the Palmetto trees and eating
> the berries. It was really something to see them trying to stay in one spot
> to get the berries. There were 40 to 50 Gulls with 10 to 15 in a tree at a
> time.
> After they finished one tree they down the road to the next one. I also saw
> a lot of Hooded Mergansers and several Blue wing Teal there on the lagoons.
> VAN ATKINS
>
> Charleston, SC
> vatkins@awod.com