A few Gull's along the beach

Took a few photo's.

Ringed-billed and Herring Gull

More Gull's here, dead fish were coming in with the NE wind.

Gull's take to the air.

Bored Gull

Enter Great Black-backed Gull

I dont think he's an adult quite yet.

An adult GB-b Gull

Big Boy

make room fellas... I was told that some one had claimed to have spotted a Sabine's Gull, no one had a field guide and someone on a bicycle (which is not allowed) had scared if off while riding through the middle of the Gull's. (sigh) I doubt it wouldve been a Sabine's anyways, myself I was hoping for a Glaucous Gull, but the GB-b Gull was a new one so thats kool.

same pic uncropped

Nice ones Burd!

Neat pics!
The one with the bored gull needs a caption. (I'm thinking of a drill sergeant I once knew...)

Sorry in this case I have to disagree. The Sabines Gull I mentioned a while back was seen by several experts and was entered into Ebird by Don Freiday and Michael O'Brien on Oct. 11th

Here is the page of reports: http://ebird.org/ebird/top100?locInfo.regionType=subnational1&year=AAAA&locInfo.regionCode=US-NJ

Here is a little about Don Freiday; http://www.birdcapemay.org/cont_frieday.html

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I guess anything is possible, my field guide says (for Sabines) rare on east coast, but a few juveniles can show up on far inland lakes every fall. Thanks for the link Pelle.

Nice!

Same pic with a tighter crop so it shows up full size

Next best pic. All my others came out rather blurred :-((

Resin

Great photos, all of them!!

Nice shot of the Sabines Resin! I find myself checking Gull's out more regularly now. lol

These pics from the same beach, 15 years ago you would have hardly ever heard of a Double-crested Cormorant on Lake Erie, things have changed a little.

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No. 4, Watched a couple thousand go by, one line of them looked to be a half mile long.

The Gull's must like crushed stone.

lil closer

cropped

Nice ones Burd!

It is neat to hear about what was never in an area not all that many years ago too.

Fantastic shots.

Grief, what a hideous hill! Gulls like places like that because there's nowhere that a predator (e.g. fox) could hide.

Resin

I went to the Huron pier to look for the odd Gull's, nothing but Ring-billed and Herring Gull's. Here's a pic of how the "hideous hill" came to be. Coyote's are more of a threat than Fox here, but I always heard Gull's couldn't be eaten because of what they eat, must of been meant for human's.

Yep, a coyote wouldn't have the same worries about eating gulls that people do! And just the same as a fox, a coyote wouldn't be able to sneak up on those gulls on the rock pile

Resin