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Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 17:56:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Al Eisner <[[email protected]]>
To: Karen DeMello <[[email protected]]>
Subject: Re: [SBB] Life and Death at the bay
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On Sun, 9 May 2004, Karen DeMello wrote:

> We had good looks at the adult and juvenile Black-crowned Night Herons
> nearby, and saw a couple of their nests and young.  Much to our horror,
> we watched a large juvenile gull on the ground below the palm trees
> attempting to eat a not-so-tiny Black-crowned Night Heron chick.

Just curious:  why "horror"?  What would you prefer the Gulls to eat?
Had the chick already fallen out of its nest, do you think?

It's curious that this comes up in the context of Night Herons, which are
themselves likely significant culprits in the depletion of ducklings at
places like the Redwood Shores wastewater plant (where there's long been
another rookery).  The Night Herons tend to do their work when no-one is
watching.  The ducks, however, eat neither Gulls nor Herons.

Only half serious.
								Al Eisner
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