This post goes for 'Show me a photo (of a bird)' contest, round #162 (this week had free topic to cover), so I simply selected some pics from my recent travel to the Zelenogorsk seaside. We met some ducks, crows, and a lot of seagulls.
Seagulls in their natural habitat, in the tidal zone of the beach, can easily obtain food.
Large cobblestones are a favorite place to relax. "When I sit higher - I see better!" - thus, an enemy with a camera will not approach unnoticed.
Judging by the streaks of suspicious white substance decorating the landing platform / her observation deck... apparently, she has been sitting here for a long while :) or she is constantly visiting said spot, and this is not only an observation point but also a favorite place for rest and digestion, possibly for other seagulls as well :)
In fact, there are more than enough big rocks in the location to use for that, this one was no exclusive.
Look at that dreamy expression on the face!
Time for some preening.
This might be not very noticeable from my pics, but as we walked along the tidal strip, we made such an observation: here and there we saw pairs of seagulls; almost all the seagulls were teamed up in pairs!
...this made us think that seagulls might have their mating season right now - and the next thought was directed towards those seagulls who were flying or sitting alone, hehe... 🙃 some losers and rejected mates (so we assumed!) who haven't found a partner this season... well, maybe haven't found one yet 😎
And at the farthest point of our walk, on the cape, we stopped near a large flock of seagulls to use on them a wheat baguette that we especially obtained and kept for this purpose. The local branch of the bird bazaar was sitting on the stones and flying above ...
My 200mm telephoto lens difficulty was reaching these rocks, and the coastline became completely blurred, as you can see. (These captures were taken from the far end of the cape).
By this time the sun that blessed us at the start of the walk, had long since disappeared, it was getting colder and the wind was blowing fog, so I had the opportunity to photograph birds flying in the milky white air... I even tried to create a video, but I have to practice more (not very happy with results I got...)
This is one of the milk / monochromes series. Could easily fit with so many further prompts: monochrome, birds flying in air, sea birds, many birds. I guess would be a wise move to hoard some for the future publications, lol. I do not have much of this kind, and pretty rare shoot the birds in the air, just dont have much opportunity in my metropolis for that.
Hope you agree with me, these are very moody and mesmerizing, a good plot to create some artsy monochrome versions.
And let me finish with this one.
Looking at the cropped close-up version you can notice it was sort of a family scene! 😎 @wrestlingdesires let me alert you on this, maybe you would like to pick it up for another edition of your 'Let Our Picture Tell Your Story' challenge 🙏🙏🙏
