Great Lakes region, USA. September 2025.
Juvenile gulls will find sticks to play with, just like we do. They'll pick them up, drop them and pick them up again. This dude was getting some practice in. It was fun to watch.
This was from October of last year. I was headed out to a nature preserve a few miles out of town and there is this nice spot overlooking the bay. The water had receded a few feet creating these low spots. My boy was out there showing his moves like a dancing queen. He had a great style.
You are no match for his shtyle!
Maybe my gull photos will get some love here? My birding friends don't seem to appreciate them, lol. I took this last week after an ice storm.
Oly E-M1 @ 264mm, f/8, 1/800s ISO 200.
During breeding season the ring-billed gull's skin around their eyes turns red to signify their ready for mating. It's their most beautiful look of the year IMO.
Never mind the crow bros, here’s the gullfriends.
Herring gulls live for 12 years, mate for life, and are intelligent social birds. This is a place to appreciate positive interactions with the little skwarkers. They are on the red endangered list in the UK and a protected species, so let’s all be nice to them.
