Comments on: Seagull Survey (Part VI) http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/2008/06/seagull-survey-6/ The log of the good ship Mollymawk Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:24:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Roxanne http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/2008/06/seagull-survey-6/#comment-130 Roxanne Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:07:22 +0000 http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/?p=321#comment-130 Hello Peter, I suppose it would be rather tempting to interfere after watching the gulls do that! The yellow footed gulls are supposed to hurt the audouins gulls, but while we are watching the audouins have been very aggressive birds. When we throw bread in the water they scare off the yellows and take the bread for themselves. But the yellow feet are supposed to kill the audouins chicks, and I suppose that might be true. The audouins are smaller than the yellow feet. Roxanne. Hello Peter,

I suppose it would be rather tempting to interfere after watching the gulls do that! The yellow footed gulls are supposed to hurt the audouins gulls, but while we are watching the audouins have been very aggressive birds. When we throw bread in the water they scare off the yellows and take the bread for themselves. But the yellow feet are supposed to kill the audouins chicks, and I suppose that might be true. The audouins are smaller than the yellow feet.

Roxanne.

]]> By: Peter http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/2008/06/seagull-survey-6/#comment-129 Peter Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:02:29 +0000 http://www.yachtmollymawk.com/?p=321#comment-129 I have enjoyed reading the Seagull Survey and very well written it is too! I must admit I have in my time been the big bad biologist and punctured the eggs of Great Black-backed Gulls! At the time I was on my first research project and studying Puffins etc. The GBBGs would sit on the top of burrows and await the appearance of any adult Puffin and in one aweful movement split the Puffin down the middle, eat the offal and then leave the rest!! After watching these antics for a week or so I became all the things that a biologist shouldn't be and interfered, visiting the nearby islet I proceeded to puncture all the GBBG eggs and smuggly watched for weeks as they brooded the long brood! I am ashamed of myself these days, but very hard not to interfere sometimes, still I learnt a guilty lesson and never interfered again, honestly!! Peter I have enjoyed reading the Seagull Survey and very well written it is too! I must admit I have in my time been the big bad biologist and punctured the eggs of Great Black-backed Gulls! At the time I was on my first research project and studying Puffins etc. The GBBGs would sit on the top of burrows and await the appearance of any adult Puffin and in one aweful movement split the Puffin down the middle, eat the offal and then leave the rest!! After watching these antics for a week or so I became all the things that a biologist shouldn’t be and interfered, visiting the nearby islet I proceeded to puncture all the GBBG eggs and smuggly watched for weeks as they brooded the long brood! I am ashamed of myself these days, but very hard not to interfere sometimes, still I learnt a guilty lesson and never interfered again, honestly!!

Peter

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