This was taken in Cape Town during my december holidays. A fairly large lagoon in a suburb of Cape Town, that is frequented by cormorants and gulls and Darters ( you guys call them Anhinga's ) The Darter had just surfaced with his catch, as they dive down under the water to catch the fish, then surface to eat them. These gulls were alerted to his catch, and promply dived out the sky and stole the fish from his beak. The frame before this, the fish is still in the beak of the Darter.
Canon 50D
100-400 L IS USM @ 400mm
1/1250
F/7.1
ISO 400
Great moment captured, and I appreciate the back story.
By chance do you have another frame just a beat after this, that would show the front gull clear of the Darter?
It might be worse actually, if the gull is climbing.
Nice timing. I like the angle of the two gulls coming toward the camera and their opposing wing positions. Remove the darter and change the title to "Pursuit" :)