Coastal Gulls
I like the big coastal varieties of seagull we have out here in Victoria. I particularly like the colouring of the juveniles.... all the brown details in the feathers. I have accumulated quite a bunch of pictures of them spread out amongst many other galleries so I have decided to create a gallery just for them. Some of these are among my favorite bird shots.
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Waiting for a free meal. Not much today, but soon the spawning salmon will die and it will be a buffet!
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From Cattle Point Various
Gull with breakfast - Esquimalt Lagoon.
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Dinner.... the following is the sequence of this gull's successful hunt (in reverse though sorry). At low tide its a buffet for seagulls: they hunt for crabs, spotting them in the shallow water and then diving straight down into the water and down to the bottom to grab them. I had no idea they could do that. And they do it well..... the seagulls out here are HUGE compared to Ontario birds. Easily twice the size many of them - And fat and well fed from the ocean buffet.
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