How about a GULL thread ........ post your images

[Tringa]

Some excellent shots here, including the ones that are not gulls - they are also just superb birds.

Dave

 

[Martin Clay]

A selection of Black-headed and a Lesser black backed from me.


#1

Black-headed gull by GaseousClay1, on Flickr


#2

Black-headed gull by GaseousClay1, on Flickr


#3

Black-headed gull by GaseousClay1, on Flickr


#4

Black-headed gull by GaseousClay1, on Flickr


#5

Black-Headed Gull by GaseousClay1, on Flickr


#6

Black-headed gull by GaseousClay1, on Flickr


#7

Lesser black-backed gull by GaseousClay1, on Flickr

 

[hockeyboy150]

Number 3 makes me smile Martin. I can nearly hear it in full squawk. You must be a gullaholic.

 

[JackBarley]

Juvenile Black Billed Gull , NZ.
http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/black-billed-gull
Larus Bulleri

 

[hockeyboy150]

Juvenile Black Billed Gull , NZ.
http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/black-billed-gull
Larus Bulleri

Interesting. Black billed gull is a new one for me Jack. Thanks for posting.

 

[Mag1cp2x]

Black headed gull at Bosham in Chichester Harbour
Black Headed Gull, Bosham by Graeme Hutson, on Flickr

 

[Martin Clay]

Black-headed gull



Black-headed gull by GaseousClay1, on Flickr

 

[tom24]

TOM_9932 by Thomas Reid, on Flickr

 

[nickEnackEnoo]

This patient critter allowed me to practice and on it, but I still think my technique let me down a little; really should be perfect, but still 'nice'

 

[Kodiak Qc]

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Sometimes so bold…
they end their curves within the minimum focusing distance!
… this one, though, was not!

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[tom24]

Lesser Black Backed Gull

TOM_7638 by Thomas Reid, on Flickr

TOM_7627 by Thomas Reid, on Flickr

 

[Bobsyeruncle]

Taken yesterday at a local pond. I liked the way the light picked out the 2 gulls, but the whites are seriously blown. Not sure I get away with it.
I tried to tone down the whites in shot 2 but not really liking no2 as much as no1.

Untitled by robert shearer, on Flickr

Untitled by robert shearer, on Flickr

 

[the black fox]

gull in flight taken a couple of hours after taking delivery of a new canon 80D
nearly there by jeff and jan cohen, on Flickr

 

[Kodiak Qc]

gull in flight

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This surely makes you happy with that purchase!

 

[Kodiak Qc]

I tried to tone down the whites in shot 2

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…try recovering them instead, maybe…

 

[the black fox]

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This surely makes you happy with that purchase!

yep looking good ,still playing with what it can do but i had the 70d before so its not to bad

 

[gramps]

Complaining Black-headed Gull

 

[Kodiak Qc]

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…looks more like yawning. laying as it is…
Cool clean shot, Roger!

 

[nickEnackEnoo]

Queueing up to join in!

 

[Kodiak Qc]

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This is an airport scene where you fitted feathers
to the aircrafts… for sure!

Well captured Nick! …and feathered!

 

[Paulie-W]

From Portugull

Duet by Paulie-W, on Flickr

 

[Kodiak Qc]

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… much better than the one I tried
in SENEGULL!

 

[Deleted member 34016]

Surf's Up



Les

 

[Jason Crest]

A distant Lesser Black-backed Gull taken with a 500mm 6.3 mirror - missed the focus so compensated in Darktable

 

[hypnotic]

My shot of a black headed gull taken in 2009 on Skomer island during a TP meet ... A Marmite shot

 

[gramps]

Lesser Black-Backed?

 

[BillN_33]

been told I should be more creative and artistic

I just grabbed a pre-set

 

[Kodiak Qc]

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[wezza13]

Can a Tern be classed as a gull?

Common Tern by Wez Filtness, on Flickr

 

[BillN_33]

Can a Tern be classed as a gull?

Common Tern by Wez Filtness, on Flickr

One interesting thing about an Arctic Tern is it sees more daylight during its life than any other bird ....... so I read anyway

 

[wezza13]

One interesting thing about an Arctic Tern is it sees more daylight during its life than any other bird ....... so I read anyway

One of those little bits of information that rarely come in handy. Now was that time

 

[gramps]

Nesting Black-headed Gull

 

[mikew]

Bird on the nest shot i know i dont do them either,but a gull nests here every year and never sits the other way round,three stories up and the chimney looks past its best.

 

[KingDad]

These chaps regularly sit on top[ of the summer house I'm convinced just to annoy the cats lounging inside with their stomping around

IMG_4749-2.jpg by Adrian Aslett, on Flickr

These two patriotic seagulls were captured when trying out my new lens - spotted them just in time

Seagulls flying the flag by Adrian Aslett, on Flickr

 

[Shirleyr]

Just by chance I was interested in one gull amongst a small flock of Herring Gulls, one very white gull. Having took loads of photos, got home and took out the bird books and wow it turned out to be an Iceland Gull. Some of the photos were taken from an upstairs window so through glass and then outside from a good distance. Location, Morfa Nefyn, Lleyn peninsula, Gwynedd, 3rd May 2016 and feeding in a seeded field although I think it was after insects as it kept leaping up.
Iceland Gull / Larus glaucoides

 

[Shirleyr]

Aberdaron, the tip of the Lleyn Peninsula has during winter so many gulls on the beach where the river runs into the sea, such a perfect place. During January I love counting the Med Gulls that feed and bathe with the other gulls.
This photo is of a Med Gull/Larus melanocephalus, in flight over the sea 18th Jan, 2016.

 

[Kodiak Qc]

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I see too many of them at the marsh
and almost no ducklings to be seen!

 

[Shirleyr]

That's what has happened on our local pond, people come with the children and throw bread and the parent ducks loose sight of their ducklings and then the gulls drop down and pick off the little ducklings. Mostly the ducks are Mallards but I've heard recently that on a near by beach where there are Shelducks breeding the little duckling are taken by the larger gulls.

 

[Kodiak Qc]

and throw bread

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This practice, Molly, should be forbidden as it is not
healthy in any way for the ducks… and their ducklings!

 

[Kodiak Qc]

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Late afternoon capture…