The sound identification just marked down a laughing gull.

[conuly]

And I said "WTF is it doing here, we're not that close to the water" and then I remembered that we are that close to the water. I always forget that, but it's, like, right there.

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[profiterole_reads]

When I lived in Paris, there were seagulls. I assume they follow the Seine up to Paris.

[cimorene]

We are a few blocks from it too, but I hardly ever see gulls at our feeders, even though I hear them. This morning one landed near the feeder though, which was occupied by a flock of jackdaws, and they all just awkwardly pretended not to see each other until it left again without any food, lol.

[kengr]

Gulls are found *very* far inland. Hundreds of miles.

We had some huge flocks in Spokane (300 miles inland) and the Mormons in Salt Lake City were saved from a plague of grasshopper by seagulls.

[siliconshaman]

Gulls can live quite a ways inland too, especially if there's a land-fill site nearby.

"Seagulls In the Parking Lot" was going to be the title of my autobiography

[disgruntledgirl]

I chose that back in 9th grade because I was staring in puzzlement at a few seagulls in the school parking lot in Fort Worth, Texas.

Speaking of seagulls, did you hear about that kid that won an award this week for seagull imitation? Kid was amazing!