Tony Pratt

Archive for the ‘gulls’ Category

Dec
5

Taking Flight

Filed Under Fall 2009, gulls

A nice two photograph sequence of an immature Herring Gull removing itself from a piling in the late afternoon sun.

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Jul
7

Laughing Gull Nesting Colony

Filed Under Summer 2009, gulls

I kayaked out to a Laughing Gull nesting colony last evening in Rehoboth Bay, Delaware. It was a great night and I have several photographs to post over the next few days. This sequence, from top to bottom shows an adult Laughing Gull on a nest, two eggs in a nest, a just-born baby still with the egg tooth on the tip of its bill, and the last two show three recently born chicks with one practicing its calling.

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Jan
9

Gulls at the Bar

Filed Under Scenics, Winter 2009, gulls

Early this morning I was out on the cold beach and watched these gulls hanging around the sand bar.   

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