Seagulls are a fairly recent bird in Crystal Lake.

Maybe they came with Walmart.

After all, people do call them “Walmart Birds.”

There certainly weren’t any around when I was the only one fishing on Crystal Lake during the summer of 1958 and saw my only kingfisher.

But there are plenty of them now.

They were scavaging dead fish from the ice flow that my son and I saw Wednesday.

They would swoop down and pick up dead fish. You can see the fish in the gull’s beak above, if you click on the image to enlarge it.

I caught the two at the top with the sun showing through their wings.