Thursday 27 June 2013

Aerial combat

Spent some time in the lakeside hide at Gosforth Park this morning with the Black-headed Gulls and their chicks holding centre stage early on. Life for a chick can be a painful learning curve. Make sure you approach your own parents if you are going to beg for food because if you get it wrong you are going to get a good pecking or stomping for your trouble. Meanwhile back on the platform the Common Terns have young also but they aren't going far. Their parents however get involved in some entertaining squabbles.
Overhead thrills and spills.


6 comments:

  1. Very nice image John. Terns have to be one of the most photogenic of species.

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  2. It happens in humans too. I remember being clouted when I tried to suckle womans breasts!.........still do.

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  3. They give the old timers like me time to focus on them as they hang there. Still trying to get images of Swifts and House Martins.......without much success.

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  4. You will have to stop doing that on Gosforth High Street Peter !!!

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  5. Yes very nice I see you are putting those early hours at Gosforth to good use !!!

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  6. If the sun is up the light is fabulous from the hide early.
    Remember....the early birder gets the image !
    Cheers Brian.

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