Gulls doing a mini-Pelican dive

I posted this video to the Facebook page, "The worst bird photographs ever." It belongs.

But I think it's interesting, even if the video is Worst Bird quality.

I've never seen gulls do this before. The water was shallow, at low tide. I couldn't see if it was fish they were catching, or crabs maybe. And my pocket camera couldn't tell, either.

Then it ran out of batteries. That'll teach me to go out without the proper camera.

Go-getter

The tide was going out, the sun shining. Far down the beach, a large flock of gulls sat waiting for lunch. Where I was walking one gull swam alone.

Stories Beach, looking across to the mainland. One gull.

He was too far away for my eyes, but the camera saw.

Why wait for low tide, when the fish are feeding?

He's caught a fairly large fish, with a white belly and a greenish tail.

Hurrying now; gotta get this thing landed!

A second later, he was hidden behind the rocks.