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Feeding the Gulls

The attraction is the chunks of leftover bread.

They are noisy sharp-eyed scavengers. I’m talking about glaucous‑winged gulls, the most common gull species found in Dyes Inlet. It doesn’t take much to attract a curious and seemingly always-hungry crowd of them — just toss out a few gull-sized chunks of day-old bread on the shore of Mud Bay and the birds appear in seconds (see photo).

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