Bonaparte's gull

[Ron Conlon]

The Bonaparte's are a prettier gull and more active and skilled in fishing than the ring-billed and herring gulls.
Cleveland harbor
D800E 500mm + 1.4x 1/3200 f/5.6 ISO1250

[arash_hazeghi]

I like the nice BG. wish the wings were fully raised, head looks a bit soft to me and I would move him a bit lower in the frame

TFS

[Shawn Zierman]

These guys are more like terns in their flight abilities...love this species! I've seen them wiffle and drop from hundreds of feet in the air in a matter of seconds....you can just hear the wind being cut to pieces! I like the perspective here...slightly above eye level. Light quality is very good. Exposure looks spot on. The head could have shown a bit better with a slight turn towards the light source...subsequently the eye lacks sparkle, though the coloration of the orbital ring comes through nicely.