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hi dont be puzzled why crackers or dog food would work as well as fish chum
because fish chum is better once they get a taste, anything will attract
gulls and when you get a few gull comming and more etc the other seabirds
see this hey there is food over there lets go get it.
carl cut up frozen herring onetime we had shearwaters etc the whole way
back. anyway it quite simple
i save 5 gallon cans of fish waste at the plant andfreeze it for
chum .
----- Original Message -----
From: "P.L. Chalmers" <plchalmers@ns.sympatico.ca>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 11:04 PM
Subject: [NatureNS] Chumming for seabirds - what works?
> Hi there,
>
> I'm puzzled as to why crackers or dog kibble would work as
> well as the usual oily/fishy chum mixes.
>
> When you see a fishing boat at work, it is often followed by
> a cloud of gulls hoping for a free meal. Chum is supposed to
> substitute for the fish waste that is thrown over the side
> of fishing boats. There seem to be two theories about what prompts
> the birds come in to investigate. Like Elizabeth, I have been on
> whale and seabird cruises (Grand Manan, Brier Island) where old fish
> scraps were mixed with bread and used to attract birds. The oily
> smell was supposedly what drew in the birds. I think it is Fulton
> Lavender who recommends bringing a can of sardines on the boat, and
> after eating the sardines for lunch, tying a cord to the pull tab on
> the can and then pitching it overboard. He said there was enough oil
> left in the can to spread a slick behind the boat, and that would
> bring in the birds.
>
> On the other hand, some people think that the action of
> flinging anything small and floatable overboard deludes the gulls,
> and their more interesting fellow-travellers, into responding to an
> apparent fishing boat.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patricia L. Chalmers
> Halifax
>
>
>
> for At 05:51 PM 13/09/2008, you wrote:
>>i always took a box of crackers with me works just fine
>> just crush them up.
>> no smell . but the real chum works better just ask carl haycock.
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "joan waldron"
>><waldrojo@ns.sympatico.ca>
>>To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
>>Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 10:37 AM
>>Subject: RE: [NatureNS] Nova Scotia Bird Society field trip: Briar
>>Island: Sept. 26 to Sept. 28
>>
>>
>>>When Ken McK and I were on a sea bird trip off Woolongong Australia a
>>>couple
>>>of years ago the "chum" used was dried dog food and it really worked.
>>>Joan W
>
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