Franklin's Gull
Donald M. Somers Water Pollution Control Plant
Sunnyvale, California
September 30, 2006

This rare gull was putting on quite a show for me behind the Sunnyvale water treatment facility. It would hover very low and advance at a walking pace, taking steps that skimmed the surface of the water. It was as if it was walking on water.

After passing me, it would turn around, fly back to where it started, and slowly approach me again. It repeated this several times before I ran out of storage in my camera's memory card.