I was planning to share some fascinating raptor behaviour with you but an expert friend of mine has sent my image to expert friends of his and I haven’t heard back yet – hopefully next week. In the meantime I recently captured an image of a young Silver Gull that captured my imagination.
Silver Gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae) – juvenile
Canon 7DII, 1/2500, f/8.0, ISO 400, focal length 349
A family group of Silver Gulls were foraging in the shallows as the tide turned, the sand was still sodden, which meant my clothes were too, but it was great to be low enough that this juvenile seems to be looking down at me.
I know gulls are common and that many people treat them with disdain but I admire how well they have coped with the mess humans have made of much of their habitat.
In this image I was rapt with the gull looking at me with a ‘what’s she doing down there’ look and I particularly like the way the fast shutter speed and the depth of field captured the reflections on the gull’s underbelly and the movement of the water. The complimentary blue and orange colours would look great in a print. I can’t remember if it was the wave in this image that made me particularly wet but it looks as though it could have been.
Happy birding, Kim
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