Earlier posts on Obol have referred to the winter gull roost at Waverly
Lake in Albany. There are frequently large flocks of gulls feeding in
cultivated fields from Albany to south of Brownsville. I've always assumed they
were the gulls at Waverly Lake. On one occasion I saw the flock in Tangent ,
less than two miles west of I-5 on Hwy 20 take flight and move towards Albany
in a somewhat disorderly manner at sunset. Dave Irons has noted gulls around
Brownsville flying towards Fern Ridge in the evening.
Around three Sunday afternoon there were many hundred gulls in the white
clover field on Hwy 20 in Tangent. The bulk were MEW GULLS, over 80%. The next
in abundance were RING-BILLED GULLS. There were as few as two score pink-foots,
mostly Glaucous-wing. Most noteworthy was a WESTERN GULL.
An hour and some later we found about 100 gulls on Davis Road, a few miles
southwest of the first group. They were all pink-foots. At 4:30 70 of them took
flight and headed sw, the direction of Fern Ridge Reservoir. A few minutes
later the rest got on the wing , about 30 birds, and also went sw. LarsPOST:
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