{"id":62268,"date":"2019-12-31T05:28:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T12:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=62268"},"modified":"2025-05-19T06:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T11:20:11","slug":"winter-ring-billed-gull-in-a-whiteout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2019\/12\/31\/winter-ring-billed-gull-in-a-whiteout\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Ring-billed Gull In A Whiteout"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ring-billedRing-billed Gull in a winter whiteout \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1000, ISO 640, +1.7 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though it was snowing yesterday morning I went down to the local pond to see if I could find some birds to photograph and I did. I saw geese, ducks, grebes, coots and gulls.<\/p>\n

Most of the pond is frozen now and the only open water is on the far side but some of the birds still came in close enough to photograph.<\/p>\n

The light was low, big flakes of snow were falling and the ice was covered in fluffy snow so that allowed me to take photos of a few birds that looked like they were posed on a blank, white canvas. I enjoy viewing this Ring-billed Gull in a winter whiteout photo because of the simplicity of the entire frame and of the images that I took yesterday morning this gull photo was my favorite.<\/p>\n

In the first week of 2020 I should have ample opportunities to take photos of birds in snow or with falling snow in the frame if<\/em> the weather forecasts are accurate.<\/p>\n

I went back and counted the number of days that I was out in the field photographing birds in 2019 and the total was 167. I’m not sure if the weather is going to cooperate today so I can make that 168 but I know I’ll try.<\/p>\n

Happy New Year’s Eve to everyone! I hope that you will be able to welcome 2020 in the company of family and friends and that it will be a great year.<\/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":"

The light was low, big flakes of snow were falling and the ice was covered in fluffy snow so that allowed me to take photos of a few birds that looked like they were posed on a blank, white canvas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145021,"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":[27,410,709,26],"tags":[4004,3539,521,1123,4064,4264,4246,1984,4468,4050,8018,4813,373],"class_list":["post-62268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-ring-billed-gulls","category-salt-lake-county-utah","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-gull","tag-gulls","tag-high-key-2","tag-ice","tag-larus-delawarensis","tag-nonbreeding-plumage","tag-pond","tag-ring-billed-gull","tag-snow","tag-urban","tag-whiteout","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ring-billed-gull-snow-high-key-mia-mcpherson-8469.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-gck","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62602,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2020\/01\/13\/winter-ring-billed-gulls-from-low-light-to-afternoon-light\/","url_meta":{"origin":62268,"position":0},"title":"Winter Ring-billed Gulls – From Low Light To Afternoon Light","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"January 13, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I can't say that I prefer one of these Ring-billed Gull images over the other, the low light image is as appealing to me as the one I took in afternoon light. 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