HEEG showing up on LB Peninsula.
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On Jul 20, 2021, at 12:22 PM, Karen Saxton <kcsaxton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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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
