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12 MAR 04
Musick's Lakeside Campground
S. Holston Lake
Sullivan Co., TN
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This evening Carol Cross, Wallace Coffey, and me, observed about 250 
Ring-billed Gulls from atop the point. We used three different setups of the 
Launched 
Avian Restraint Utility System (L.A.R.U.S.) to no avail. The most innovative 
change for today was the addition of a dog tie stake driven into the ground in 
which to wrap the pull cord so as to gain a variety of posts from which to 
activate the trap. This even enables us to launch the trap while situated 
directly behind it. We had feeding gulls all around yet they remained sensitive 
to 
the presence of the trap. 
I will be demonstrating the techniques of this method to include the many 
variations of setups as part of my presentation at the BBC's March meeting. I 
will also describe the unique and inexpensive construction of the L.A.R.U.S.  
as 
I discuss it's role in area Gull work.

'Til we bird again

Rack Cross
Blountville, TN


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