Utah State Bird

Springtime California Gull Portrait

By |2021-12-11T08:08:12-07:00April 12th, 2012|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, California Gulls, Davis County, Portraits, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Yesterday while I was out photographing Long-billed Curlews this California Gull (Larus californicus) flew in so close that all I could do was take portraits of the bird.

California Gulls – The 1848 Heroes of Utah’s Pioneers

By |2021-12-11T08:21:01-07:00April 26th, 2011|Categories: Birds, California Gulls, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Huge flocks of California Gulls allegedly descended onto the grasshoppers in the valley and made tasty meals of the insects thus preventing the total loss of the crops as the story is told.

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