{"id":60505,"date":"2019-09-27T05:16:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T11:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=60505"},"modified":"2024-08-21T11:39:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T16:39:50","slug":"the-colorful-insides-of-a-ring-billed-gulls-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2019\/09\/27\/the-colorful-insides-of-a-ring-billed-gulls-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"The Colorful Insides Of A Ring-billed Gull’s Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"InsideInside view of a Ring-billed Gull’s bill – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/2500, ISO 500, +0.7 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Just a simple post today of the colorful insides of a Ring-billed Gull’s bill that I photographed yesterday morning at Farmington Bay WMA as it yawned. I wanted to photograph the gull because it was on a pole where in the past I have photographed Bald Eagles, American Kestrels and Northern Harriers perched on, I am fond of the pole because of the memories that I have of those birds in my viewfinder.<\/p>\n

For a long time the Bald Eagles stopped perching on it because a bat box was installed too close to the top of the pole and they seemed to avoid using the pole as a perch. I liked the bat box because it could provide shelter for the bats but hated it at the same time because it kept the birds from perching on the pole. The bat box eventually fell apart over time, disappeared and now birds seem to be using the pole as a resting spot again.<\/p>\n

Okay, back to the Ring-billed Gull…<\/p>\n

The morning light looked wonderful on the gull and I took a few photos of it resting on the old wooden pole and then the gull started to yawn with its bill wide open. At first the gull was facing towards the south east which put most of the inside of the gull’s bill in shadow but then it turned its head more towards the north which gave me a great view of the colorful insides of the gull’s bill and its tongue. The Ring-billed Gull actually filled the frame but in post processing I cropped in close to show the inside of the bill in more detail. This is a view of a Ring-billed Gull that not everyone gets to see or pays attention to. Aren’t birds fascinating?<\/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":"

Just a simple post today of the colorful insides of a Ring-billed Gull’s bill that I photographed yesterday morning at Farmington Bay WMA as it yawned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1022,697,410,26],"tags":[4004,970,5750,5552,4142,6303,4620,3539,521,7778,4264,7405,4468,5185],"class_list":["post-60505","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-autumn","tag-beak","tag-bill","tag-close-up","tag-colorful","tag-fall","tag-gull","tag-gulls","tag-inside","tag-larus-delawarensis","tag-mouth","tag-ring-billed-gull","tag-tongue"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ring-billed-gull-inside-of-bill-mia-mcpherson-9526.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-fJT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":120113,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2024\/01\/25\/ring-billed-gull-flying-in-heavy-fog\/","url_meta":{"origin":60505,"position":0},"title":"Ring-billed Gull Flying In Heavy Fog","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"January 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Once upon a time, in a marsh not so far away, I photographed a Ring-billed Gull flying in heavy fog. 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