PISMO BEACH GULL

I stopped to watch this gull for a bit while on the pier at Pismo Beach.  He tried to ignore me but I persisted in communicating mentally with him to see if he would react.

Literally I was standing there for about three minutes telling him to turn around.  Finally he did but wasn't all that impressed with my attention.  He went on about his business of looking for his next "victim" who was carrying something that he could swoop in and steal from them.   While standing there watching him I was reminded of the time in San Francisco at Pier 39 when a man walking with an ice cream cone was the victim of a sea gull seeking ice cream.

Actually I could have just said in fewer words this:

Where is my next meal
A child with ice cream perhaps
Hmmm...  I'm being stalked

REPOSTING A FAVORITE

I was at the beach  - at Venice Beach in Santa Monica when I took this photo of sea gull flying towards the pier - you can see the fun zone in the background.  I think next week we are heading to the coast again to hang around Laguna and on up the coast - I doubt it but I wish we had the time to go all the way to Santa Monica.  Our temps all over Southern California are really going to be hot again - not as hot as our last horrible heatwave that topped out about 120 degrees in some Inland Empire areas (below the mountains where I live)...but this time it says our high will hit 95 up here and probably  105 to 110 down in the valley.

NOVEMBER THROUGH FEBRUARY THE SEAGULLS RETURN TO THE LAKE

Yesterday I spent quite a bit of time photographing them in flight.  We are getting colder weather coming from the North so our nights will go down into the 30's.  I hope to get out in awhile to go to the lake for a brisk walk.  We have winds but so far nothing to keep me away from walking.

While Mike throws out duck food I try to catch them coming in for a landing.

SEAGULL IN PISMO

I'm glad I went back to this file of photos from Thanksgiving 2015.  I had forgot about them until the other day.  This is also the day that a sea lion was on the beach and I believe in some kind of distress.

SEAGULL IN PISMO

I was at the coast towards the end of January and took quite a few seagull photos.  I am still editing days of photos from my trip.  Problem is I visit the coast and take lots of photos but then I come home and we have day trips out to different places and then I get inundated with photos but eventually i'll get my favorites up.  Here is a favorite.

There were egrets and seagulls on the beach looking for food so I got quite a few photos with the waves swelling behind them.