Hey all,

Nothing to report! Just want to throw a question out to Tweeter-land:

So the mouth of the Cedar River has been a great place for gulls over the last few years, with Slaty-backed and Glaucous showing up now and then, and all of the other regular gulls (Thayer's, Herring, Glaucous-winged, Mew, Ring-billed, California and even some Western) being pretty reliable. It seems to me like the traffic pattern for those gulls has changed recently! Usually as the sun started setting, gulls would stream in to the mouth of the Cedar River, but it has been a little thinner at sunset. Then quite recently I saw nearly a thousand gulls after sunset circling above the Target Parking lot at the Landing. There are other spots that I've seen large groups of gulls during the day (freight buildings off of Interurban in Tukwila, Renton High School, and Coulon itself, separated only by the Boeing plant from the Cedar River mouth).

The question is... has anyone else seen a change in traffic patterns for the Renton gulls? Anyone feel like they have it figured out, like... are the gulls on the freight buildings (which are mostly Thayer's) during the day the same ones that circle the Landing in the evening?

Anyway... I'm so close to them, that I'm going to try to figure some of this out, but if anyone thinks they've got pieces of this figured out, send me an email, or maybe even post for the general good - either way, I'll post what I find from people and from watching them once I know a little more. There's so many gulls down here - definitely worth the trip to watch them and try to pick out some rare ones, but it helps to know where and when to find them!

-Tim Brennan
Renton