Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!ark From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: Baby Sea Gulls Message-ID: <4208@alice.UUCP> Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 11:29:05 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.4208 Posted: Sun Aug 25 11:29:05 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Aug-85 01:26:59 EDT References: <950@teklds.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 13 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.