Discussing gull droppings on a rainy morning

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Gull droppings on our tractors windshields was the topic this morning at local coffee shop. No joke, the thousands of gulls were apparently migrating through and sailing in to any field with a tractor turning the soil. Obviously, the gulls were in search for earth worms, as they would fly just a few feet over they would bomb-out on our tractors, by the end of the day a water hose was needed to wash away the excrement.

Mostly Ring-billed gulls with a few Herring gulls made up the large flocks. Still havn't figured out why some had black-trimmed tails [a Bonaparte gull?] but most had all white tails. Strange that , in years past the cattle egret was our friendly field companion, always running after or side-stepping our implements along the way. Very few egrets around so far this spring.

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Here in west central Ohio sea gulls are the same way , see a fellow working ground and theres hundreads of gulls. When I was a boy we never see one always thought they only live near the ocean thats why we called them sea gulls  :D