Subject: [Tweeters] Mew Gull's Don't
Date: Mar 14 23:26:58 2012
From: jeff gibson - gibsondesign at msn.com



Mew Gull's don't seem to like parking lots. Up here in Everett the 10th street boatlaunch parking lot, several acres of tarmac, is often full of parked gull's of most of the white-headed varieties. Mostly Glaucous-wings (and hybrids) and Ring-billed, along with occasional California, Herring, Thayer's, Heerman's, or Glaucous, depending on season. And in season Caspian Terns also park out there. But just about never a Mew.
I can't say they won't, but Mew's just don't seem to be the parking type. Immediately North of the parking lot are the tidal 'maulsby mud-flats'. Plenty of Mew Gull's out there in Winter, only yards away sometimes, from the parking lot. It does seem that there's more of them congregated near freshwater rivulets on the North side of the flats, if that means anything, but then all the other gull's are out there with them.

The lot being a popular human gull-feeder spot, possibly there's some gull union action going on that Mews aren't members of, like the "United White-head's for White bread" union. Whateverett.

Jeff Gibson
Everett Wa