No fish! Q fished out!

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

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.

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.