if you want gulls go to Calhoun in Minneapolis, they like to sit on the sailboats and crap, same at Harriet.

For what it's worth, we just finished an 8-night easy trip in the Quetico, Beaverhouse, Cirrus area (in and out at Beaverhouse) and I can report lots of gulls on all 3 lakes.

Where is the 'rant' forum?

Climate change is happening and whether you believe it's part of a natural weather cycle, man-made or somewhere in between, the critters know and are responding accordingly.

Ever see those pictures of fruit growers using pots to heat/melt their frozen trees in the effort to save them.
Now look at those satellite pictures of the clear cutting going on in the Amazon/China, much of Indonesia.
You can see the fires from space and the clouds obscure the land.
Now tell me that increased heat isn't doing something to speed the warming process along, natural occurring or not.

We've got a lot of gulls hanging out on the mall parking lot this year,and eagles staying all year long down around the Illinois River-nesting here.  This is a relativly new phenomenom down here in north central Illinois  (...iast couple of years...)  Critters are moving around,trying out new places.  There's change afoot.

maybe the gulls are travelling/staying further north ?

there was a bit on the news about southern varieties of butterflies showing up in record numbers in the northeast, like seeing a hundred or so of X, where in past times, you'd be lucky to see one or two X - essentially due to warmer climate apparantly - could be gulls and maybe eagles (I seem to have seen fewer eagles the past couple of years than normal) are travelling further north to escape the heat

I noticed the same thing the first week of July. We had a few on Darky but not a single one on Middle Roland.

Pat

No fish! Q fished out!

I just finished a northern Q trip. Didn't see a single gull. Lots of frogs and toads though and I'm betting there's a connection there but what happened to the gulls? Use to be you couldn't crouch by shore to get water w/o drawing at least one in. Now nothing.

BP, GW, barbless ... not trendy enough for them anymore ... what? I did not see one. And I started to notice after my second day. Even rocks that were usually covered in white were clean.

I didn't see any moose evidence either but...

What's going on? Guy at the park office said he was wondering about that too.