It was a good day for bird spotting, with local sightings of greenfinches, goldfinches, pied wagtails. Even a kestrel. For once though the herring gulls are going to take pride of place. These shots are part of a longer sequence I took on the grass banks just outside the buildings at work. The gull on the right is a semi-mature herring gull (judging by the plumage it looks like a 2-year old). It was supremely uninterested in feeding the fledgling.
One bonus shot tonight. It doesn’t really fit, but I like it and I did see it today. I’d heard the green woodpeckers in the woods when I was over at Seven Sisters this morning, and grabbed a few frames as one flew across the fields in its unmistakeable bobbing flight pattern. The background makes all the difference to this kind of distant-bird-flying image.
Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 400mm f/5.6L USM lens.
derwandersmann
1 Aug 2014The fledgling certainly makes its desire plain enough.
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2 Aug 2014dW, there are lots of fledgling gulls around right now, many staying on the ground though they can all fly a bit. It makes for a very noisy place/
Andy
1 Aug 2014🙂
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2 Aug 2014Cheers Andy!
Darko
1 Aug 2014I like how they demand the food, submissive but persistent 😀
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2 Aug 2014Darko, very persistent but I think the adults are beginning to force them to sort out their own food.