Seagull breakfast
Another archives shot taken on the Homer Spit, Alaska on 29 July, 2019.
While photographing a Bald eagle at rest atop a navigational buoy out in the bay, we noticed small industrial pier just off to our left. Strung along on of the ledge’s underneath was a series of seagull nests, the first I had ever seen. Within seconds of noticing the nests, one of the juvenile seagulls decided it was time to test its wings, jumping from the nest. It flapped its wings it what looked to be much more of a controlled crash than a first flight. As it hit the calm waters below, it tucked its wings and floated there for just a split second, and then it died.
While we were watching the baby seagull, apparently the eagle was as well. Within a second of its landing, the eagle snatched it up, causing not just a sad scene for us to witness, but placed some twenty or so seagulls in the air, doing what little they could in attempting a rescue.
In a way it was hard to watch as it was nature at its core. Once I remembered what a pain in the backside seagulls are and how much I love eagles, I felt much better!
Seagull breakfast
Another archives shot taken on the Homer Spit, Alaska on 29 July, 2019.
While photographing a Bald eagle at rest atop a navigational buoy out in the bay, we noticed small industrial pier just off to our left. Strung along on of the ledge’s underneath was a series of seagull nests, the first I had ever seen. Within seconds of noticing the nests, one of the juvenile seagulls decided it was time to test its wings, jumping from the nest. It flapped its wings it what looked to be much more of a controlled crash than a first flight. As it hit the calm waters below, it tucked its wings and floated there for just a split second, and then it died.
While we were watching the baby seagull, apparently the eagle was as well. Within a second of its landing, the eagle snatched it up, causing not just a sad scene for us to witness, but placed some twenty or so seagulls in the air, doing what little they could in attempting a rescue.
In a way it was hard to watch as it was nature at its core. Once I remembered what a pain in the backside seagulls are and how much I love eagles, I felt much better!