{"id":51000,"date":"2018-02-17T05:35:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T12:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=51000"},"modified":"2025-08-05T18:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:45:27","slug":"farmington-bay-ring-billed-gull-immediately-after-bathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2018\/02\/17\/farmington-bay-ring-billed-gull-immediately-after-bathing\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmington Bay Ring-billed Gull Immediately After Bathing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ring-billedRing-billed Gull immediately after bathing – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/2500, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I spent a little bit of time at Farmington Bay WMA yesterday morning and I was excited to see a couple of squadrons of American White Pelicans flying over the marshes early in my visit there and thirty-one Great Blue Herons at the rookery when I was about to go home.<\/p>\n

I had hoped to see or hear my first of the year Sandhill Cranes but I dipped on that. The birds I photographed the most yesterday were American Crows and gulls.<\/p>\n

A few days ago when I wrote about a bathing Black-bellied Plover<\/span><\/a> I mentioned that the plover turned its back towards me when it finished bathing which meant that I missed having photos of it facing me that I wanted of it where the bird lifted its wings and leapt up into the air.<\/p>\n

That is a behavior I see in quite a few bird species, including gulls.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I saw a Ring-billed Gull bathing among the flock and kept my eye and lens on it even though there were quite a few other birds quite close to it. My hope was that those birds would move away and I could isolate the bathing Ring-billed Gull and that is exactly what happened right at the time the gull finished its bath. The gull lifted its wings…<\/p>\n

\"Ring-billedRing-billed Gull leaping after a bath – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/2500, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

And leapt into the air above the water. As much as I like the first photo where the Ring-billed Gull has its wings spread and its feet still in the water I like the second photo even more because of the action and how the bird is suspended over the water.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Ring-billed Gull photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As much as I like the first photo where the Ring-billed Gull has its wings spread and its feet still in the water I like the second photo even more because of the action and how the bird is suspended over the water. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,1022,697,410,26],"tags":[4004,6365,5109,4053,3539,521,4264,6366,1027,4094,4468,3996,4095,373],"class_list":["post-51000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-davis-county-utah","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-ring-billed-gulls","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-after-bathing","tag-bath","tag-breeding-plumage","tag-gull","tag-gulls","tag-larus-delawarensis","tag-leap","tag-leaping","tag-marsh","tag-ring-billed-gull","tag-water","tag-wetlands","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t