Move over Alfred Hitchcock and The Birds. Attention Wal-Mart shoppers: Gulls are flocking to Greensboro. Last week, we spotted several hanging out in ROW 8 of the Wal-Mart parking lot near Cone Boulevard. While gulls are usually associated with the ocean, hence the name ‘sea’ gulls, it is not uncommon to find some species of gulls inland. Since they are scavengers, gulls are found in places where food is readily available– like parking lots of fast food restaurants. Gulls seem to love French fries, even though they are as bad for birds as they are for humans! (Read more about gulls here). 

Certain times of the year gulls stop by other places in Greensboro such as the the Warnersville Recreation Center and Jones Elementary School. Once we heard a Kindergartener ask his parent, “Does this mean that Greensboro used to be by the ocean?”  Perhaps the gulls in ROW 8 are en route to somewhere for the summer. The gulls make us think that North Carolinians must have a little seagull in our blood: we love to flock to the beach! Have you made your reservations yet?