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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1952)
.!,- rt" .MtAwi- , , , v vv vbv, 'Vwsi! fc (j-iwi - "r 'Wllllliiili'winiiiliwiyiiniinl!). mMI'mil ii nriiiq lift' ill Xr j ' M $ ' - ' t y - ' t ,..- - j 11 ' . i I ; . rttgz!iiz ! fJ1"--.-i ' . IMmU: sl&Mm i lit " (wet-,? i' , '" i waaavr .uj- ' mm S. , j , rt ' I if . r - I KLAMATH SEAGULLS arc really local they don't come clear from the ocean to feed hero where they're often seen following plows and in seeded areas in farmers' fields. One larye local colony o gulls nested this year on the Unit 7-8 Dike on Lower Klamath Lake, just beyond the state line. An estimated 10,000 adult gulls made their homes hero the past season, making 3,500 nests with two to four eggs per nest. Picture No. 1 (at top) shows the gull "hotel" on the lower lake. Tulclake Kcfuge Mgr. Tom Horn says the gulls nesting here are of two main types the California (05 per cent) and Ring Billed. The California is the most abundant breeding gull in this area, he says, and favors tho alkaline lakes and marshes of Eastern Oregon and Northern California. That includes tho Klamath Basin, Malheur, Warner, Goose and Clear Lakes. The Ring Billed in turn nests within the larger colonics of the Californians. Morn notes the gulls are masters of flight, and are at home equally on water or land. He says that during nesting their unscrupulous food habit is viewed with mixed feelings. When they harass young ducklings or when pheasant and other eggs are found at gull nests, it takes rm m A. '2 ""V A' V 't- no small restraint to not con demn tho gulls to extinction, or at least to a wildlife des ert. However, Horn says, they arc scavengers and clean and glean from trash piles, gar bage dumps and refuse. Milkf bottle caps, orange peels and small cut bones are found out there on the Lower Lake. To their credit,' too, Is tho fact they feed on grasshoppers. Their young are fed by re gurgitation, and among the enormous amount of insects the hoppers arc prominent in number. It was the California gull, Horn says, that destroyed the Mormon .cricket . infestation near Great Salt Lake in 1848 00. During farming seasons, gulls follow plows, picking up insects and mice, Young gulls grow and obtain mastery of the air very rapidly. . Picture No. 2 shows adult gulls in full flight. No. 3 shows a newly hatched young one and two unhnlchcd eggs. No, 4 is a small gull egg just hatching. No, 5 shows newly hatched gulls, and No, 6 is a young one beginning to de velop flight feathers. All Photographs by Herald and Nawi Staff Photographer Don Kettlor. f r-. Ck 4 ft ! fc!"1. ia -I"' , ''n m i ill mm Inmil win mm Jk i?A
