BIRDS FOUND NEAR SHORE OR IN BAYS 83 
Breeding Season : Approximately, May 1 to August 1. 
Nest: A bare slight depression in the ground near shore, or a rude 
affair of seaweeds and grass on shelving rocks or cliffs. 
Eggs: 2 to 4; from dark olive to white, spotted with light brown and 
umber. Size 2.88 X 2.03. 
THe Glaucous-winged Guli is one of the most numer- 
ous birds on the California coast. Mr. Leverett M. 
Loomis writes of it at Monterey in midwinter as follows : 
“Whales frequently came into the bay. Often they 
would be attended by a great train of gulls and pelicans 
‘feeding upon the slop-over’... In Carmel Valley 
near the ocean I found them [the Glaucous-winged 
Gulls] in company with Western gulls following the 
plough as robins do in the spring in South Carolina. 
The tameness and familiarity of the water birds on this 
coast strikingly contrast with the wariness of those of 
the North Atlantic.” 
This gull may be known from the others by the long 
wing-quills of slate-gray tipped with white. Its winter 
range does not extend so far south as that of some of 
its congeners, but it is reported all along the California 
coast from Monterey northward. In nesting habits the 
Glaucous-winged Gulls resemble the Western gulls ; the 
newly hatched Glaucous-winged are the softest, downiest 
nestlings imaginable. They are fed upon small fish, refuse 
from salmon canneries, — which the parents fly miles to 
obtain, —and small mollusks. 
