Thursday, December 17, 2009

Seagulls, Seagulls, Seagulls

Q&A for the day: What do you call a group of seagulls? A colony.

And that’s what I’ve seen every morning on the athletic field of Dartmouth Middle School near my son’s home in San Jose – a daily colony of California Seagulls.

They gather there by the hundreds throughout the morning, just crowding together on the field, carrying on their conversations as casually as can be. I’ve seen them as late as 1:30 p.m., so I assume the people at the school just leave them to their own business throughout the day.

Besides, who knows what an angry colony of seagulls will do when you intrude upon their space?

They’d probably dive-bomb your head with fishy poop, that’s what.

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