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` Bird Control Program Forward Landfill-Manteca, California ,y Observations at Forward Landfill-During Operations Daily Observations by Controllers The falconers who provided the daily bird control at the landfill kept records of the numbers of gulls that approached the landfill and the numbers that flew past the landfill on route to .. other destinations. These data are summarized on a weekly basis in Table 1. The daily summaries are provided in Appendix 1. A revised, more efficient data summary sheet was provided to the falconers for use in 2012-2013. Table 1. Weekly summary of gull observatons by falconers in the vicinity of the Forward Landfill. #of gulls Average Ave. Total Peak Date feeding at #of #of #of gulls in the landfill flocks gulls at one 2012-13 during week /day /day time Oct 26-27 0 4.0 19.0 20 Oct 29-Nov 3 0 6.8 18.7 40 Nov 5-10 0 10.0 94.5 62 Nov 12-17 0 10.5 159.7 80 Nov 19-24 0 9.3 50.2 25 Nov 26-Dec 1 0 15.8 133.7 50 Dec 3-8 0 10.3 76.3 50 Dec 10-15 0 3.8 11.3 8 Dec 17-22 0 8.8 46.2 30 Dec 24-29 0 7.8 49.6 30 Dec 31-Jan 5 0 4.8 17.8 20 Jan 7-12 0 3.5 14.2 30 Jan 14-19 0 4.8 23.5 30 Jan 21-26 0 6.8 31.2 15 Jan 28-Feb 2 0 9.0 51.7 25 Feb 4-9 0 9.8 60.0 50 Feb 11-16 0 12.8 88.8 60 Feb 18-23 0 15.5 190.7 100 Feb 25-Mar 2 0 30.5 228.3 60 Mar 4-9 0 20.3 127.8 50 Mar 11-16 0 19.7 103.5 30 Mar 18-23 0 11.2 67.8 34 Mar 25-30 0 8.5 57.2 100 ,r Apr 1-6 0 4.3 14.2 19 Apr 8-13 0 4.0 16.0 40 Are Gulls Feeding at the Landfill? The bird control program is designed to deter birds from feeding at the landfill. The observations by the controllers (falconers) indicated that no gulls were able to feed at the active disposal area of the landfill after the control program began (Table 1). However, as part of the 4 30 December 2013