August morning sunlight filters through a hazy sky – is it smoke from distant forest fires, or only the smog of industry hanging low, keeping close.

My monitoring is almost at an end. Many of the nests are empty, the chicks having fledged. Many others are close to leaving, and only a handful of younger chicks remain at late nests.

My schedule is changing as fall shines on the horizon, and this may be my last weekend on my route.

Square Nest

One of the three younger chicks, with some feral Rock Pigeons in the background to give you a sense of scale.

Clipper Nest #2

One one chick remains on the rooftop that hosts both Clipper Nests.

Pyramid Nest

One chick remains near Pyramid Nest, but now down on the rooftop proper. There was no sign if its’ sibling.

Crossfit Nest (?)

On a rooftop just north-east of Crossfit Nest I spotted these two young gulls with a parent. Are they the chicks from Crossfit Nests? Is there another nest here that I missed?

Grassy Nest

The three chicks at Grassy Nest.

Engineer Nest

Only one chick seems to remain at Engineer Nest.

Chimney Nest

Two chicks sleeping at Chimney Nest.

Culinary Nest

Due to the construction on the Granville Street Bridge, I missed everything that happened here. Today, I spotted two adult gulls inspecting the nest site. The furthest gull appears to be the male – you can see it is larger overall than the gull in front.

Island Nest

Three younger chicks and an adult at Island Nest.

Devourers

Some relevant graffiti on the Granville Street Bridge.

American Crow

With fewer gulls around, I spent a bit of time photographing other city birds I saw along my path.

Feral Rock Pigeons

Some pigeons resting on a rooftop.

Morning view from Granville Street Bridge

QGIS Map

And finally, you can find my QGIS map of all the nest here: kmkrebs.com/qgis.

Until next time…

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