Gulls and Terns

California Gull	Common Tern	Franklin's Gulls on river rocks.	Wings just touching water.
Ring-billed Gull	Pelican and Gull looking for food.	Gull eating sea-food.	Gulls on river ice.
Herring Gull in for a landing.	These gulls were flying up with shells, dropping them, then flying down to eat the spilled contents.	These gulls were flying up with shells, dropping them, then flying down to eat the spilled contents.	This series of 6 pictues shows Common Terns in a mating ritual. One adult bird offers a fish to another.
Second in the mating series. This bird is vocalizing.	Third in the mating ritual series. Here one Common Tern offers a fish to the other.	Fourth in the mating ritual series. Here the fish has been accepted.	Fifth in the mating ritual series. Here the tern is eating the fish.
Last in the mating ritual series. The fish has been swallowed.	This gull was being bothered by a young one and other adult gulls to drop the starfish.	Gull trying to eat a starfish.	Black-legged Kitiwakes nesting on a building in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Black-legged Kitiwake on a building in Newcastle Upon Tyne.	Ring-billed Gulls waking up to a lovely sunny day.	Ring-billed Gull swimming in the early morning sun.