We saw a juvenile in Brookings harbor a couple of weeks ago. Have seen
several adults: Crescent city, and Bandon.
On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 9:37 AM larspernorgren <larspernorgren@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Starting about 30 years ago l noticed the variable arrival date of
Heerman's Gull on the Oregon Coast and it's synchrony with the first flush
of Cantharellus roseocanus(our fog zone chanterelle, not described as a
species 30 years ago). A self-identifying family of hillbillies in Scapoose
takes great pride in always being the first to deliver the first
chanterelles of the year. They showed up Friday night, July 16, with 1.5
kg. The earliest I recall is June 12 of a forgotten year, when they
delivered 15kg AND some hedgehog mushrooms. I'm not saying there's any
direct relationship between Heerman's Gull and spruce chanterelle, but
they're both bonded to conditions of the North Pacific Ocean. While the
dates of first fungi/fruits and fowl is readily determined, comparing
productivity of the two is harder. I think 90% of Heerman's Gulls nest on
one island in the Gulf of California. That might be countable by satellite.
Alas the chants have no reliable data set, though l know harvest varies by
maybe two orders of magnitude.
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-------- Original message --------
From: Phil Pickering <philliplc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 7/20/21 8:31 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: "'obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [obol] Re: FOS Heerman's Gull juvenile
I've been seeing small numbers of juvenile Heermann's
moving north offshore from Lincoln City starting on the
12th. So far they've outnumbered juvenile Cals which
may not have had a great breeding year around this
latitude.
Phil
