Shrimp Cocktail, Anyone?

Posted by Eric Fry (Houston, TX, United States) on 16 September 2008 in Animal & Insect.

I thought this was a bit of fishing line hanging out of this gull's beak. Turns out it was just a shrimp's antenna...

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Eric

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Comments (9)

Masoud Nahali from Tehran, Iran

wow, too lovely birds.

16 Sep 2008 5:44am

Maxine from Rangiora, New Zealand

This reminds me of that scene in Finding Nemo with the sea gull lined up for food and all saying' Mine'!!

16 Sep 2008 8:03am

Linerberry from Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand

Great shot Eric! I'm laughing with Max on this one 'mine mine mine'!!!!
Look at then with all their funny black heads! Seagulls....love em or hate em...they will always be there!!!
Looking forward to your return Eric:-)

16 Sep 2008 9:30am

@Linerberry: Thanks, Liners! I'm back, kind of...Still no power, running a big generator, and internet service is spotty, but I can get online a little bit, now at least.

Thank you so much for all of the concern and good wishes!

Kylie Greenan from Richmond, Australia

These are really amazing looking gulls, I like their black and white pattern, we only have all white ones here. Their expression is priceless, you have captured this so well Eric! How did you find out it was a shrimp antenna?

16 Sep 2008 10:28am

Mary from Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom

Lovely capture of these gulls

16 Sep 2008 3:58pm

dj.tigersprout from San Bruno, CA, United States

i simply love this! a hot shot -- and very humorous too! vivid color and contrast! a fabulous angle to boot! excellent!

16 Sep 2008 5:00pm

dj.tigersprout from San Bruno, CA, United States

p.s. how are you? you may not have electricity yet -- but we are missing you and hoping everything is ok! :)

16 Sep 2008 5:22pm

@dj.tigersprout: I'm doing ok, and everything is ok at my house, except for the lack of electricity. I've got a good sized generator, though, and now that my ISP is back up (kind of), I'll be able to post some shots of the damage in my neighborhood.

Thanks for the good thought, Jay!

Veronelle from Lens, France

super capture, nice and lovely birds ! :-))

16 Sep 2008 5:52pm

willow from Chelsea, United States

Love the vibrant blue contrasting with the black an white of the birds. Nice composition.

19 Sep 2008 9:10pm

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