Sea birds

[MisterMoon]

So I’m in Long Beach, CA this week. I’ve been walking and running in the beach daily since Saturday. There are no birds. No seagulls, sandpipers, pelicans, heck there are not even pigeons.

It feels wrong. The absence of bird sounds is now all I can hear.

 

[Snaggletooth]

The homelesse eatteng them?

 

[MagentaLine]

The homelesse eatteng them?

Winner winner chicken dinner!

 

[Tunnel Rat]

Winner winner chicken seagull dinner!

FTFY

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

So I’m in Long Beach, CA this week. I’ve been walking and running in the beach daily since Saturday. There are no birds. No seagulls, sandpipers, pelicans, heck there are not even pigeons.

It feels wrong. The absence of bird sounds is now all I can hear.

Start flinging french fries around and you'll find out whether seagulls see you.

 

[Captain Ketamine]

Albatross…

 

[Willin']

They go to the landfill at night. Used to see a huge migration of gulls out of Newport Harbor every evening at sunset. I wanted to do a little research project on where they went each day while I was going to OCC but my Dept. Head said it was no mystery, they go to the dump back behind the San Joaquin Hills on the Irvine Ranch.

Doh!

 

[Mrleft8]

It's great fun to watch gulls in grocery store parking lots. People drive their massive extra cab dually p/u trucks to go food shopping, and put the bags in the bed. When they get into the cab, the gulls inspect the groceries from the lamp posts. If there's a loaf of bread, or anything of interest in sight, a soon as the truck starts moving a gull will swoop down, and deftly snag that item. Then you get the aerial dogfights to see which gull ends up with the spoils.

 

[Grande Mastere Dreade]

Mine!

 

[Grande Mastere Dreade]

sadly there seems to be a decline... i used to have a plethora of mockingbirds in the yard fighting for territory, the little flocks of sparrows would flt about from bush to bush... then there was the cardinal who would fight daily with the truck side mirror... sadly there seems none of that anymore.. years back i'd get flocks of robins tearing up the yard when they were migrating, haven't seen that in awhile.. so definitely around here there's something going on... . but, the bazillion mallards at the lake and docks leaving their piles of shit everywhere, seem to be doing alright..

 

[Point Break]

Still plenty of the flying rats around here.

But seriously, i the harbor and surrounding wetlands, even the neighborhoods there are plenty of birds of all flavors including various raptors. On the golf course we play the coots, ducks, egrets, herons, and several species of geese are aplenty.

I'm thinking the birds are smart enough to steer clear of Long Beach............its a ghetto.

 

[Snaggletooth]

It's great fun to watch gulls in grocery store parking lots.

Driveng backe frome a colde wette Halifax Race, the drivere cussualley pointted outte yuge flockes of gulles, I lette hime no "I caulle them parkeng lotte chickens". Thertey secants latere we allmoestes crashed.

 

[Point Break]

It's great fun to watch gulls in grocery store parking lots.

When I was headed out or back from surfing, I always enjoyed watching them on the beach pillaging the tourists "stuff". While the tourists were frolicking the near the water, the flying rats would descend onto their neatly arranged blankets with their belongings arranged just so. They would head straight for the bags and begin pulling stuff out looking for chow which there almost always was some. My absolute favorite was watching a tourist run up the beach shouting at the collection of gulls noisy fighting over the remnants of their stuff only to have one fly off with car keys in its beak.

Flying rats.................

 

[Rasputin22]

So I’m in Long Beach, CA this week. I’ve been walking and running in the beach daily since Saturday. There are no birds. No seagulls, sandpipers, pelicans, heck there are not even pigeons.

It feels wrong. The absence of bird sounds is now all I can hear.

You can always return home to Acworth where the sounds of the chicken houses will sooth you. Go check out the big trimaran TRITIUM up for auction and share some photos with us.

 

[NeedAClew]

That is weird. Get out of there.

 

[Snaggletooth]

That is weird. Get out of there.

Thast a good pointe, animallles allwayes no when some disastere is aboute to strike!

 

[longy]

I thought Tritium was in San Diego?

 

[jerseyguy]

Ocean City, NJ approach to controlling gulls stealing food

 

[Point Break]

Ocean City, NJ approach to controlling gulls stealing food

On the golf course the other day there was a hawk sitting on a kill...duck.....and pulling it apart for a snack. A lady in the cart in front of us lost her shit hollering at the hawk. It looked at her like "god what a dumb human". I had to agree. Same thing a few weeks earlier, a local yote on the course bagged a coot and was toting off with it when some lady was shouting...........

What a soft and tender culture we've become.

 

[Snaggletooth]

What a soft and tender culture we've become.

I woude edditte to saye 'some've' insteade of 'we've', butte thast juste me......