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Herring Gull feeding on a Mantis Shrimp at Salter's Grove..
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Orange County, California, US
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Winter adult. Pale gray mantle with white head streaked with gray. Pink legs and feet. Yellow eyes. Yellow bill with faint red spot.
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"Elizabeth and I went to the ""Geese by Golly"" festival at Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge. We went on a little tram ride with a couple of the birders from Hagerman, and we spotted lots of neat birds. This was a really neat flock of birds -- there were hundreds of ring-billed gulls and several other birds mixed in. :)"
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"Elizabeth and I went to the ""Geese by Golly"" festival at Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge. We went on a little tram ride with a couple of the birders from Hagerman, and we spotted lots of neat birds. This was a really neat flock of birds -- there were hundreds of ring-billed gulls and several other birds mixed in. :)"
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The large, pale mantled preening bird in the middle of image 1. Image 2 shows the same bird behind a Lesser Black-backed Gull. Our last day in the UK; we head home tomorrow morning. Another dark and gray and drizzly day for the most part, but we spent a very nice morning and early afternoon at the London Wetlands Centre which is a really great area for water birds, etc. We met up with several very nice British birders who kindly shared their time and knowledge with us. Conditions were very dark so all my images were at 3200 ISO or 6400 ISOâ¦almost like dark twilight all day. At times it was so dark the autofocus on the camera was virtually not operable. On some images, especially small and active passerines, the images are extremely poor both in focus and slow shutter speeds, but did the best I could under the circumstances.
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The large, pale mantled preening bird in the middle of image 1. Image 2 shows the same bird behind a Lesser Black-backed Gull. Our last day in the UK; we head home tomorrow morning. Another dark and gray and drizzly day for the most part, but we spent a very nice morning and early afternoon at the London Wetlands Centre which is a really great area for water birds, etc. We met up with several very nice British birders who kindly shared their time and knowledge with us. Conditions were very dark so all my images were at 3200 ISO or 6400 ISOâ¦almost like dark twilight all day. At times it was so dark the autofocus on the camera was virtually not operable. On some images, especially small and active passerines, the images are extremely poor both in focus and slow shutter speeds, but did the best I could under the circumstances.
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