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Wednesday, March 20. 2013

Herring Gull

A reader sends us a pic of an immature Herring Gull in New England, with a big barnacle-covered Blue Mussel. He'll fly up with it 20 or 30 feet and drop it on rocks or asphalt until it cracks open.


Posted by Bird Dog at 05:05 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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unfortunately, in addition to pavement and rocks, they also drop them on cars. sat in a train station lot on LI once in my youth and watched gulls trash Jags, M-Bs, and Beemers. was quite interesting actually
#1 Alex G on 2013-03-20 08:07 (Reply)
They also love to poo on luxury cars.
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2013-03-20 08:15 (Reply)
That's how you can tell if it's really a bird flu epidemic --if you open the door and see the neighbors are all outside pooping on each other's windshields
#1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2013-03-20 19:04 (Reply)
Wow....that IS immature.
#2 Dathi on 2013-03-20 09:07 (Reply)
That's an awful lot of work. It that bird is a herring gull why doesn't it just drop into the nearest IKEA and pick up some pickled herring?
#3 Knucklehead (Link) on 2013-03-20 09:50 (Reply)
I spent some time in Freeport, Maine this last summer. We stayed at a campgrounds right on the shore of Casco Bay. At low tide we walked on the beach and walked out on some very large rock outcrops that are nearly covered at high tide. I was born and raised in New England, but my wife is from Chicago. She was amazed to find the rocks covered with broken clam shells. I explained this very phenomena to her.
#4 RonF on 2013-03-20 10:30 (Reply)

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