Great Black-backed Gull
It has been a few weeks since I have gone out and done some real birding. I ended up taking the day off of work and took this opportunity to have Jordon show me around to some of his favorite birding spots. So, today I was up along Lake Erie with the hopes of adding a few species to my 2006 year list(which I did do). I will post our results tomorrow once I get a chance to edit more photos.
The Great Black-backed Gull’s was a species that I have been dieing to photograph for some time and never expected to find some putting on a show for us. Luckily we found a few of these guys right along the road fighting over a fish. I figured they deserved their own posting and as you can see I was very happy with how these shots turned out.
They are easily identified by their black back and one of our largest gulls seen around the Great Lakes. They have a very deep voice and these guys made me wish I had my sound recording equipment on me to get a recording.
I am soo glad that I wasn’t that fish they kept on fighting over.
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