dand@teklds.UUCP (Daniel Dreiszus) (08/24/85)
Where are the baby sea gulls? I lived on the coast for fourteen years and never saw a baby sea gull -- only adults, and all of THEM were just about the same size. And don't tell me that they are out in the ocean somewhere, because I fish a lot and they're just not out there. Next Week: Killer Bees
ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) (08/25/85)
I've seen lots of baby sea gulls. One day, I was walking along the dunes on a beach at Martha's Vineyard and encountered a gull nest with some babies inside. The babies look completely different from the adults -- sort of like giant chicks, but brown and spotted. When I got too close to the nest, the mother started dive-bombing me to make me go away. It worked -- they fly up to 25 feet or so, fold their wings, and down they come. They aim for the eyes. Adolescent gulls are the same shape, and almost the same size, as adults, but they are still brown. They don't get their grey and white coloration until they're the better part of a year old.
evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) (08/26/85)
In <950@teklds.UUCP> we are asked the following: > Where are the baby sea gulls? I lived on the coast for fourteen years > and never saw a baby sea gull -- only adults, and all of THEM were > just about the same size. And don't tell me that they are out in the > ocean somewhere, because I fish a lot and they're just not out there. > > Next Week: Killer Bees I am the keeper of Baby Sea Gulls. I live on a big seaside estate in NJ, and out in the backyard, I keep baby seagulls until they are just that size, then I release them. If they don't grow big enough, we just put them into this big hole I have out back, which I call a gully. See? And if they grow too big, then we release them as E-gulls. Next week: Killer Bees --Evan Marcus -- {ucbvax|decvax}!vax135!petsd!petfe!evan ...!pedsgd!pedsga!evan Kids, remember, please don't try stunts like this at home.
carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft) (08/26/85)
In article <950@teklds.UUCP> dand@teklds.UUCP (Daniel Dreiszus) writes: > >Where are the baby sea gulls? I lived on the coast for fourteen years >and never saw a baby sea gull -- only adults, and all of THEM were >just about the same size. And don't tell me that they are out in the >ocean somewhere, because I fish a lot and they're just not out there. x They are hard to recognize because they dont look like seagulls. In fact, they are raised on people's lawns, where they look like plaster ducks. After 6 weeks, on a diet of banana slugs, the home boys come by and truck them to the "c"-shore, and they go FORTH and steal your picnic lunch. Darwin's Dad (Carl Witthoft) ...!{decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!aoa!carl @ Adaptive Optics Assoc., 54 Cambridgepark Dr. Cambridge, MA 02140 617-864-0201 "Put me in, Coach. I'm ready to play today. Look at me! I can be centerfield."
john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) (08/26/85)
> > Where are the baby sea gulls? I lived on the coast for fourteen years > and never saw a baby sea gull -- only adults, and all of THEM were > just about the same size. And don't tell me that they are out in the > ocean somewhere, because I fish a lot and they're just not out there. > > Next Week: Killer Bees > There is only one sea gull: when it collides with something, it travels backwards in time as a killer bee, which, upon colliding with something else, converts back into a forward travelling sea gull. The extremely intricate path it travels enables it to account for all observed sea gulls and killer bees. What? This isn't net.physics.bad? Oh, dear, I'm sorry.... -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw%mit-ccc@MIT-XX.ARPA You have violated Robots Rules of Order, and will be asked to leave The Future!
jimmy@scgvaxd.UUCP (Im ok, me too.) (08/28/85)
>Where are the baby sea gulls? I lived on the coast for fourteen years >and never saw a baby sea gull -- only adults, and all of THEM were >just about the same size. And don't tell me that they are out in the >ocean somewhere, because I fish a lot and they're just not out there. > Where have all the baby seagulls gone Long time passing repeat line 1 or go to line 13 Oh I forgot the rest! But if I recall correctly, the song goes on to tell you that baby seagulls are indeed in their mothers! Yes you see, the seagull is actually an American marsuopial. If memory serves me breakfast, they developed from the kangaroo about the time of Atila the Seagull (an European marsuopial) to escape the kettles of those kangaroo- lovin' Aboriginies, who at that time were actually still like their predesessors the Koala Bear!
chabot@miles.DEC (All God's chillun got guns) (08/29/85)
Evan Marcus > I am the keeper of Baby Sea Gulls. I live on a big seaside estate in NJ, > and out in the backyard, I keep baby seagulls until they are just that > size, then I release them. If they don't grow big enough, we just put them into > this big hole I have out back, which I call a gully. See? And if they > grow too big, then we release them as E-gulls. No, no, if they don't get big enough, you bob their wings and sell them as B-gulls. ('Curse you, Red Baron!') Er, honestly, folks, when on one of the smaller Boston harbor islands, I nearly stepped on something I first thought was a fluffy little rabbit. "A rabbit with pin feathers...on its wings...and with a beak?! How bizarre." Mommy and Daddy Seagull don't much like it when you walk through their nesting areas (usually in areas free from human habitation, which is why you won't see them even if you live on the coast), and they fly overhead squawking a lot. L S C ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot