---- "Tim Øsleby" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hodded gulls are going back. Here we have only a handfull.
I'm not sure why. But overfishing is what I'm told. The small fishes are not their only food source, but I do believe it is important for them. -- MaritimTim In your landscape, probably; in Jostein's and certainly mine, much less so. 2009/5/7 AlunFoto <[email protected]>: > 2009/5/7 Tim Øsleby <[email protected]>: >> I like Hooded Gulls. >> I'm also fascinated by pictures of common birds. It's about seeing >> what other people just pass by without noticing them. Make the trivial >> interesting. >> >> Alas Hooded Gulls are not that common anymore. Basically because we >> are eating their food, I'm told. To be more accurate, we are making >> food out of their food, that we feed the salmon with. > > I thought that was the terns? > At Østensjøvannet, the Hooded Gulls eat just about anything. They are > commonly seen at landfill sites too, along with other gulls. On this > outing, I had a packed of small carrots with me. They were a bit green > at the top, so I threw away the hmm... caps?... one at a time. The > mere act of person-throwing-bit-sized-object was enough to attract > them. They looked positively disappointed when realising it was only > vegetables... :-) > > Btw, there was some insect hatching going on. Looked like chironomid > mosquitoes ("fjærmygg"), and some of the Hooded Gulls were busily > snapping them up. Tried to catch them in the act, but didn't get any > good shots of that. :-( -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
