ring-billed

"We're free to go where we wish and to be what we are." (Richard Bach - 2006 75)

Taken at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline at about 7m. Couldn't resist this brave gull hanging-around this close to people. He was vocalizing and flailing his neck around.

I think he forgot what his mommy told him about how to eat fish. I bet all those little stones on the fish will work real good in his gizzard.

This one almost did get away.

Took this at the lake today. This was a rather mild encounter between gulls. Usually they seem to spend most of their time stealing from each other. Apparently the one begging was a lower ranked gull.

Unexpected find? Not uncommon on Lake Erie in the summer, but I don't know one gull from another very well yet and seem to have captured one that isn't a Walmart parking lot special.

This was taken on the same evening as the Great blue and the head shot of the Ring-billed gull.

A Ring-billed gull. One of my first images using the Canon 400mm f5.6 lens.

My mother thinks I'm pretty, what do you think?

Got a few minutes to step out by the Beaufort inlet off Fort Macon State Park, NC. It was cloudy all day and I saw a few Gulls and some Pelicans.

Late fall shot from boat of Ring-Billed Gull

Shot this one from the James River Ferry crossing to Jamestown VA.

Echo Bay, Lake Mead NV Nikon D80 & AF Tamron 200-400mm LD

This Ring-billed Gull was intent on displaying right in front of my spot today at a lake in Cheyenne.

I took this picture from my car window, it was only about 10 feet away and wanting a hand out. The background was very dark so I went ahead and made it black. I also removed a bluish tint on the white plumage. Image enhancement was done in Paint Shop Pro 7.0