Pretty? Ugly?

Young birds fall into two categories.

Pretty (greylag goslings)

Ugly (young herring gulls)

Off-theme, but worth posting anyway is a peregrine that I saw flying overhead as I was leaving work this evening. There was also a buzzard in the vicinity. The local gulls were not happy!

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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.

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This Post Has 9 Comments

  1. gdare

    26 Jun 2013

    They are all pretty… in their own way 😛

  2. derWandersmann

    26 Jun 2013

    Those herring gulls are growing fast!

  3. Wulpen

    29 Jun 2013

    great shots

  4. Words

    8 Jul 2013

    Darko, so they are really. I think the herring gulls are quite charming in their scruffy way.

  5. Words

    8 Jul 2013

    dW, they certainly are. Not quite ready to fly but it can't be long now.

  6. Words

    8 Jul 2013

    Erwin, thanks!

  7. derWandersmann

    9 Jul 2013

    Mostly (all?) ringbills around here … their young are pretty scruffy, too.

  8. Words

    11 Jul 2013

    dW, I just checked out some photos of ringbills, as we don't see them here. Pretty looking gulls.

  9. derWandersmann

    11 Jul 2013

    Lots of them in my albums. They always make me very aware that the dinosaurs didn't die out; they just changed.

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