Ring-billed gull

[Ron Conlon]

The Cleveland Harbor has been full of fish and has attracted thousands of mergansers, cormorants, Bonaparte's, ring-billed and herring gulls, and a few terns and grebes. The ring-billed gulls usually don't fish much, often preferring the easy pickings at the landfill, but they were taking advantage of the bounty this day. This gull is scanning the water for fish near the surface, which resulted in a less than ideal head angle, but I liked it all the same.

D800E 500mm 1.4x iso640 1/3200 f/6.3

[Randy Stout]

Ron:

Nicely exposed, nice clear view of the head, the intent gaze does help with the story.

Agree about the head angle. The faint clouds help give some depth and the blues on the gull plays well with the bg.

Cheers

Randy