[texbirds] Re: Northeast Austin gulls - California and Lesser Black-backed
- From: Russ Nelson <austinlistener@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 18:00:13 -0600
Back in my working-stiff days, my work location was off Cross Park Drive
in Northeast Austin, basically in a direct line between the dump where
you saw the gulls and Lake Travis. Several times in winter, I would see
large flocks of westward bound gulls (white/light headed and medium
sized - probably Ring-billed) just before the sun began to set (and as I
was walking out to my car to go home.) I was never able to see them on
the eastbound leg, supposedly in the morning, mostly because I was
inside before the sun rose (working is such and drag!)
So it would seem that your description of a daily flight pattern might
be accurate.
Russell Nelson
Austin
On 12/7/2013 5:42 PM, Eric Carpenter wrote:
> The California and the Lesser Black-backed are perhaps the same
> interesting gull "spuh's" that Rich Kostecke had photographed over
> Thanksgiving on Lake Travis. I have occasionally pondered where
> exactly the Austin gulls roost and how far they travel on a
> daily/weekly basis and it doesn't seem far-fetched to me that the same
> gulls that make it as far west as Lake Travis make it to the landfill
> and back during the season.
>
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