Fw: Queensbury Tonight

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Welch"
To: "Brian Sumner"
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: Queensbury Tonight

>> When the daily gulls come over to roost each evening the BH gulls always
>> come over first followed shortly afterwards by the LBBs.
>> Thats your tonights bit of useless information. Bri.

Not that useless, quite interesting actually!

I found large gulls, particularly HG, tend to arrive later in roosts, cf.:

http://www.geocities.com/steve_extra/Gull_roost_flight_path_study.html

See also these interesting pages reporting observations of large movements
of gulls ***during the night***:

http://www.farmoor-birding.com/Gull-Deterence-Trials

Regards

Stephen