Seagulls in Brooklyn?

jesed

Dude, I just saw three seagulls on Prospect Place between Underhill and Washington. One swooped down to grab a chicken bone or something and then flew off. I could have sworn I heard them on the previous block, but I disregarded it as they aren't normally this far inland.

WTF?

rose

I have seen them many times in the South Slope. It does seem strange.

jesed

Maybe the food is better here.

sweet tea

there were always plenty of gulls where i grew up, which was about 150 miles farther from the ocean than we are now.

i see gulls here quite often.

jesed

Huh. Guess I've never seen them...

mattbot

Avian gentrification.

armchair_warrior

mattbot wrote: Avian gentrification.

yeah they are pushing out the "native" pigeon!!! oh noes!

god

Gulls have been seen up to 50 miles inland. They fly where there's food.

karl the druid

armchair_warrior wrote: [quote=mattbot]Avian gentrification.

yeah they are pushing out the "native" pigeon!!! oh noes!

with sticks

i read it on the parkslope parents blog. it had no source, date, nor actual location but it had a lot of high steppin' attitudiness

so it must be true. lock you aviary

poppy13

I'm from upstate NY, near Lake Ontario. Seagulls there are pretty small. The ones I've seen in PH are huge. And they look real nice and clean. I will take a seagull over a stupid pigeon any day.

fjord

this far inland? Are you aware that you're surrounded by myriad waterways? an ambitious seagull can fly from a Brooklyn Heights or Red Hook wharf in about 5 minutes.

this thread speaks volumes about how nearly all NYers are all but cut off from our wonderful harbor areas. It's the sixth boro, the waterways. and thanks to highways and lame condo projects, access points to these waterways are almost impossible to find. what a shame. as someone who spends copious time on the Hudson and East Rivers, I can tell you that they're the cleanest they have been in decades. And it's an absolute lovely way to escape the concrete/observe the pulsing cityscape.