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‘ evening stroll. along‘ the ee
_ Centennial Walk between |
- Dundarave and Ambleside on.

Park there is in store, during

the coming weeks, a rare and
| fascinating sight. It goes on | -
- overhead, unnoticed by. ali |
but an observant. few. After | =
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* ‘The time is around 7: p.m.
and it is one ‘of those warm,
stillsummer evenings aftera-| == ~
hot. day. On such a night. as” |
this, in addition to — the.
: ordinary-run of evening flies,
“the sky may well be fille d “scarcely believe it, for these

with millions of large green- Bonaparte. Gulls oe ey.

winged insects of the termite _ have a unique taste for fii
family, just hatched out, and when available i in sufficient
‘flapping about -in a groggy | quantity. They arrive here at
‘manner. They are so big that the end of July-en route from
they can easily be seen singly heir nesting grounds in the
with the naked eye and, if far north and stay for a
you live by the shore, they month or two before moving

will land on your patio and th
shed their wings and make a yea their fully grown

general nuisance of themsel-
ves. The swallows are busily | |
gobbling them | ‘up. | : 7 mo ;

a “nese beautiful birds are
-. the smallest of all the gulls
But what is this . flock of and half the size. of the local’

larger: birds, no less ‘agile — ‘Bay variety (the Glaucous-_
_ than the’swalilows, though in winged Gull). Their pitchy-

their flight they more nearly black -head is in sha
resemble bats? The air is full | ‘contrast to their ‘snowy-white’

of them - swooping ‘and. pody and bright red legs.
_ Wheeling, or stopping dead - Graveful fliers, . they are
_ in mid flig ht. In: their dozens, . equally dainty when resting.
or maybe hundreds, they onthe sea, sitting high out of |
"spread over land and sea, - the water with tail cocked -

one and all ‘in a mad and constantly dipping their
scramble to fill their tummies beaks into the water.

with as many as they can of —. ee
_ these tasty morsels. . oe 7 —_

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_ A distinctive. characteristic

- Until you have seen it with
y is their cry, which, more than

_your own ‘eyes you will

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anything resembles the high
‘quack of a duck’-- and that
sound is often the first
warning that they have
arrived, for you don’t expect
‘to hear .quacking sounds
coming from the sea. Some
_ of the birds may have already |
changed into winter plyrfiage
‘by September. Their‘head is
then white, as is that of the
juveniles, but they have a
‘black tailband. —

. Unlike other gulls, these [fe
birds. build their nests ‘in =
_trees near water from.Ques- ff

nel’ Lake upwards tghrough |
-the Province, In early spring |
they. ‘can be seen. and heard |
-on our, coast: on’ their way °
northward but their flyeating _.
habits: ‘are. reserved. for.
‘summer nights:. On one hot

7 usmmer evening a couple of
years back thete .were ‘so.
many flies out and so many
of these little gulls catching
- theim that the large Bay gulls ©
were seen to join on the feast!
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