In reply to Zo Clark:
A wee story from Glasgow. My partner stayed in a rented flat for a while in the town centre. The flat was on the top floor, and we had a great view of Herring Gulls using the flat roofs of mainly deserted warehouses to nest and raise their young. To see the parents feeding their offspring was a pleasure to watch. Herring Gulls are such dedicated parents. It was like our own little TV programme of life as it happened from a Gulls prospective and it was fabulous to watch Never forgotten the experience.
Regards
Kathy and Dave
In reply to i love robins:
Colebrook lake (north) is a raucous, cacophony of sound. Gulls have returned, and they scream and shout at each other all day. Right now, their minds are on breeding and defending their mates and territory.
I picked up this battle a bit late on. The birds started just northwest of where I was standing. The birds had just crashed into the water, and were now trying to get airborne.
For some reason I lost them at this point. Probably spotted something more interesting to photograph. Anyway, we pick up the action when both birds had flown south east, and were much closer to me.
Now this is what I call a vertical take off. Harrier jump jet has nothing on me!
A bit of weaving and diving and dodging made for tricky tracking. Not helped by overcast conditions and lens at full 600mm zoom.
With victim down, the aggressor fly off.
90% luck, 5% field craft, 5% camera skills.
In reply to Angus M:
I went to the city of Gloucester The Gloucester docks are there where I went cause Someone took me to go to the dentist to get some speacial medical toothpaste are there so there was lots and lots of gulls
heres a few of them il send the rest aswell