Dead gulls

[Silver Fox]

Is anyone else seeing dead seagulls on the lake? I've seen about a dozen in the past 2 weeks off sandy.

[bear]

yes i have been seeing dead seagulls on the lake.

[Bosun Cowboy]

Yup.

[Steve.e]

DITTO.

[Sea-IV]

Been seeing quite a few dead gulls and also noticed yesterday that there are quite a few kings floating around as well. We passed 4 that were all matures as well. Not sure if they are related but who knows.

[Silver Fox]

Just got a text that it was botulism for the gulls.

[dvdegeorge]

Likely caused by eating floating lakers caught on gambler rigs

[EsoxAC3]

Wow.... Scary stuff.

[ontherise]

I saw a dead seagull on Dewey ave. this evening.

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[dvdegeorge]

Seagull lives matter

[CK3080]

Saw two the other night as well. Weird

[EsoxAC3]

Seagull lives matter

Hahaha.... Funny stuff.... Poor taste.....funny stuff.

[Nontypical]

Fishin was slow and we had the 870 onboard soooo...

[Little Crappie]

Seagull lives matter

Made my day

[Xxx]

Likely caused by eating floating lakers caught on gambler rigs[/quote

LOL that's to funny!!

[143447]

Fishin was slow and we had the 870 onboard soooo...

. That was awesome!! Lol

[UNREEL]

Fishin was slow and we had the 870 onboard soooo...

I'd like to see more cormorants floating. Maybe the Benelli will go for a ride.

[ontherise]

I'd like to see more cormorants floating. Maybe the Benelli will go for a ride.

[emoji33]

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[skipper19]

Too bad the cormorants don't follow the gulls to the dump buffet. Lots of botch there!

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[Nontypical]

I'd like to see more cormorants floating. Maybe the Benelli will go for a ride.

Ya gulls get boring after a while, they just hover. Cormorants stay low and quick. Much better practice.

[dukhnter8]

Betting botulism and with the dry weather it may get worse. Usually DEC is cruising the beaches picking any dead birds up. I did  that along with other wildlife stuff when I was a seasonal tech for them.

 

South Carolina has a season on them, maybe we'll get one But what do you do with them once you shoot them? Don't think I would eat them.

[pvelyk]

I seem to remember an article way back about muscles filtering the bad stuff, Gobies eating zebras and bird eating gobies and getting sick.  Perfect example of bad things going up food chain.

[Sk8man]

We saw them out there yesterday as well in the Hughes area.

[rbonnell]

I saw a a couple in the port bay area yesterday

[RUNNIN REBEL]

yes it is type E botulism. Sea gulls get it (form of food poisoning) from eating gobies that are contaminated with the toxin and are dying .Also affected are ducks /loons /mergansers/ Commotants that eat these fish. The gulls you see floating in the lake end up not being able to fly or hold their head up and end up drowning.

Edited July 18, 2016 by RUNNIN REBEL