A Nice Piece of Sole
While walking along the beach at Spanish Banks, I came across a Ring-Billed Gull that had found or caught a Sole. The fish seemed obviously too big for the gull to swallow but it tried over and over again, each time that it wouldn't fit it would throw it down onto the sand and try again, picking it up in a different orientation. Finally it got it head first and to my amazement got it down his throat. Afterwards it stood on one foot and scratched itself with the other foot as if the meal was tickling its insides.
A Nice Piece of Sole
While walking along the beach at Spanish Banks, I came across a Ring-Billed Gull that had found or caught a Sole. The fish seemed obviously too big for the gull to swallow but it tried over and over again, each time that it wouldn't fit it would throw it down onto the sand and try again, picking it up in a different orientation. Finally it got it head first and to my amazement got it down his throat. Afterwards it stood on one foot and scratched itself with the other foot as if the meal was tickling its insides.