I hauled non-hazordous solid waste as a tractor trailer driver. The amount of birds in those landfills is STAGGERING. I can see Bald Eagles perched just a couple of feet from my truck.
I’m forever dragging my wife to swamps, sewage treatment plants, and dumps to look at birds. I kid her asking if she had any idea what she was getting into when she said, “I do.” I also take her to a lot of beautiful sites, too.
The municipal dump in Brownsville TX is the only place in CONUS where you can find the Mexican crow. The nearby meat processing plant in Kingsville was great for a variety of raptors.
Good morning 🌅 to both of you from Hong Kong 🇭🇰 SAR. Just two days ago, while walking along the mangrove hedges next to the beachfront promenade, I spotted two 2️⃣ Brown Shrikes each perching on the tip of their own tree tops. My first ‘LIFER’ on this species. The Browm Shrike is found mainly in Asia. What an exciting day it was, and I thought that what I saw in late December 2024, the Long Tailed Shrike ( my ‘Lifer’ that year) was the only Shrike in Asia.
The attitude of Gulls, along with their tradition for being serious scavengers, makes me love watching them and giving them food. They're great entertainers and make me laugh while they fight over food and territory and get crazy with food items. Ring-billed Gulls and Laughing Gulls are very good at hovering just above and catching food that I toss up to them. I've seen plenty of adult Herring Gulls being dominant over food and space, causing them the get very vocal and aggressive towards other Gulls. I've even seen dominant Herring Gulls grab a hold of the bill, wing, tail, or leg of another Herring Gull. I've also seen Gulls play tug-of-war with a large piece of food. The way larger Gulls stab and shake large sources of food makes me enjoy watching them.
I expect that most landfills aren't very safe, what with the high likelihood of shifting...terrain. The insane amount of birds though! I wonder if local folks could persuade a change? I can't imagine anybody would want to pay a dollar to get in, and yet exactly that sort of nominal charge WOULD be a selling point for the city, since it'd help offset operating costs. Will say - being there in winter is probably not that bad. I would NOT wanna be downwind of the place in summer though, haha!
Lol! Today I birded (gulled?) along an aquaduct that's adjacent to a composting facility where gulls congregate! (Got my lifer GLGU there a few years ago.) We stopped by the sewage ponds on our way home. My husband always says, "This will be hard to explain to our friends..." Haha. Thanks for sharing!
On a trip to Southern Argentina the local dump was an eBird hotspot to view the White-throated caracara! In fact it is listed on the Merlin app as one of the best locations to see this bird!
If your goal is spotting max numbers of species in an excursion, landfills have their pluses. They still attract huge numbers of a relatively small number of species, though this is also true for some migration sites. Before WNV was introduced to NA, American Crows and NA Herring Gulls where superabundant at our local NE landfills. They were also a good place to spot Fish Crows. From an ecologist's perspective, landfills are a place to observe ongoing evolution to synanthropy, and the consequent inflation of populations of some NATIVE species far beyond what existed in precolonial times, and often to the detriment of other native species. I first spotted a Glaucous Gull flying high over a Common Tern nesting colony on a barrier island off Long Island's South Shore. This gull species is still an uncommon sight (they face ecological competition from more abundant Greater Black Backs), but Common Terns are incapable of benefitting from landfills or other forms of Human habitat alteration. For many different reasons, their populations in that area have gradually but steadily declined, along with those of many other shorebirds. Meanwhile, species that benefit from landfills also face tradeoffs between population boosts at the expense of average individual longevity; little ongoing research is and has been conducted on the effects of exposure to harmful products at landfills on scavenging birds and their predators and scavengers has been conducted.
I would have never picked out a Glaucous from that distance. That many gulls and it's a nightmare trying to ID them for someone who mainly only sees Ring-billed, and sometimes California and Herring. 😂
Gulls are not my favorite. When a Glaucous Gull was reported at Log Boom Park on Lake Washington, I decided against chasing it even though it is only a mile or so from my house. Despite my ho-hum attitude I added a new "Life Bird" when I saw a large PURE white gull on a lamp post at McDonalds, there was no doubt in my mind that this was the Gull birders had been coming from near & far to see. I was amazed at how white it was in comparison to the rest of the gulls around.
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I hauled non-hazordous solid waste as a tractor trailer driver. The amount of birds in those landfills is STAGGERING. I can see Bald Eagles perched just a couple of feet from my truck.
Ah, luxury birding 😂
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I’m forever dragging my wife to swamps, sewage treatment plants, and dumps to look at birds. I kid her asking if she had any idea what she was getting into when she said, “I do.” I also take her to a lot of beautiful sites, too.
We birded Brownsville Tx Dump with Wildside Nature Tours. An awesome experience Thanks for sharing your visit
The Brownsville Dump is definitely the most legendary dump to bird in
The municipal dump in Brownsville TX is the only place in CONUS where you can find the Mexican crow. The nearby meat processing plant in Kingsville was great for a variety of raptors.
Sadly the crows haven’t been seen there in years :(
Gulls are hard to id. Seasonal plumage, yearly difference, slight difference. Thank you for your tips and suggestions.😊
The Gull Guide by Amar Ayyash is a great resource if you wanna learn even more!
@BadgerlandBirding that's awesome! Thanks guys!!
Great pickup on those gulls!
Thanks!
The settling ponds next to the dump is a mythic combo.
Good morning 🌅 to both of you from Hong Kong 🇭🇰 SAR. Just two days ago, while walking along the mangrove hedges next to the beachfront promenade, I spotted two 2️⃣ Brown Shrikes each perching on the tip of their own tree tops. My first ‘LIFER’ on this species. The Browm Shrike is found mainly in Asia. What an exciting day it was, and I thought that what I saw in late December 2024, the Long Tailed Shrike ( my ‘Lifer’ that year) was the only Shrike in Asia.
The attitude of Gulls, along with their tradition for being serious scavengers, makes me love watching them and giving them food. They're great entertainers and make me laugh while they fight over food and territory and get crazy with food items. Ring-billed Gulls and Laughing Gulls are very good at hovering just above and catching food that I toss up to them. I've seen plenty of adult Herring Gulls being dominant over food and space, causing them the get very vocal and aggressive towards other Gulls. I've even seen dominant Herring Gulls grab a hold of the bill, wing, tail, or leg of another Herring Gull. I've also seen Gulls play tug-of-war with a large piece of food. The way larger Gulls stab and shake large sources of food makes me enjoy watching them.
I worked at a dump one summer doing gull control, of all things. Not surprised they didn't let you in; it's not super safe.
It’s interesting because the Brownsville Landfill in South Texas allows birders in and even has signs and specific areas for them to bird in
@BadgerlandBirding oh wowww I wish ours did that!! I worked alongside a falconer so it would have been cool for birders to see them in action
@@BadgerlandBirding You die there they turn you into jailbird salisbury steak prolly!
I expect that most landfills aren't very safe, what with the high likelihood of shifting...terrain. The insane amount of birds though! I wonder if local folks could persuade a change? I can't imagine anybody would want to pay a dollar to get in, and yet exactly that sort of nominal charge WOULD be a selling point for the city, since it'd help offset operating costs.
Will say - being there in winter is probably not that bad. I would NOT wanna be downwind of the place in summer though, haha!
Lol! Today I birded (gulled?) along an aquaduct that's adjacent to a composting facility where gulls congregate! (Got my lifer GLGU there a few years ago.) We stopped by the sewage ponds on our way home. My husband always says, "This will be hard to explain to our friends..." Haha. Thanks for sharing!
On a trip to Southern Argentina the local dump was an eBird hotspot to view the White-throated caracara! In fact it is listed on the Merlin app as one of the best locations to see this bird!
100% fantastic!
Thank you, kindly!
Its so true. I found a Slaty backed Gull and a Glaucous Gull in Michigan at a dump 😂❤
@AllAmericanPlaneSpotter-iw4wm dude that’s epic! Congrats on the finds!
Cool! Smelly, but cool!!! 😄 Actually, I never considered the landfill! Smart.
Wait till you go near one! Bring mask & get ready to run!
I would say the amount of smell depends on the individual landfill lol
Landfills and Water Treatment Plants 👍😅
Good as gold lol
If your goal is spotting max numbers of species in an excursion, landfills have their pluses. They still attract huge numbers of a relatively small number of species, though this is also true for some migration sites.
Before WNV was introduced to NA, American Crows and NA Herring Gulls where superabundant at our local NE landfills. They were also a good place to spot Fish Crows.
From an ecologist's perspective, landfills are a place to observe ongoing evolution to synanthropy, and the consequent inflation of populations of some NATIVE species far beyond what existed in precolonial times, and often to the detriment of other native species.
I first spotted a Glaucous Gull flying high over a Common Tern nesting colony on a barrier island off Long Island's South Shore. This gull species is still an uncommon sight (they face ecological competition from more abundant Greater Black Backs), but Common Terns are incapable of benefitting from landfills or other forms of Human habitat alteration. For many different reasons, their populations in that area have gradually but steadily declined, along with those of many other shorebirds. Meanwhile, species that benefit from landfills also face tradeoffs between population boosts at the expense of average individual longevity; little ongoing research is and has been conducted on the effects of exposure to harmful products at landfills on scavenging birds and their predators and scavengers has been conducted.
I would have never picked out a Glaucous from that distance. That many gulls and it's a nightmare trying to ID them for someone who mainly only sees Ring-billed, and sometimes California and Herring. 😂
It was maybe my proudest moments lol
Gulls are not my favorite. When a Glaucous Gull was reported at Log Boom Park on Lake Washington, I decided against chasing it even though it is only a mile or so from my house. Despite my ho-hum attitude I added a new "Life Bird" when I saw a large PURE white gull on a lamp post at McDonalds, there was no doubt in my mind that this was the Gull birders had been coming from near & far to see. I was amazed at how white it was in comparison to the rest of the gulls around.
Sounds like someone who’s about to start loving gulls
The only thing you fellas were missing was a bag of ketchup potato chips, and it would have been a perfect dump day
@@ntw_luke ketchup potato chips? Ketchup potato chips? I lost my sense of smell in a chem lab explosion 🤣
OMG. Gross on gross!
Love gulls....Mine Mine Mine"🦭
They love you back!