Black headed gulls

The Black headed gull ( Larus ridibundus) is a common winter and passage visitor to the Bexhill area, with a few non-breeding birds remaining all year.

At this time of year we get a fair few around the Galley hill area and these present great opportunities for photography, especially as they occur in such a wide range of plumages, first winter, non breeding, and breeding plumage are all seen, as well as plenty of stages in between.

I particularly wanted to have a go at getting them in flight, so spent a rather pleasant hour taking lots of shots, these are some of them....

Tried a bit of a rule of thirds shot, which was helped by the fact that the bird was looking in the direction of the negative space.

A nice overhead shot

And then one flew past at nearly eye level, so got this lovely shot to finish with.

I do love photographing the gulls so will be doing a lot more of this over the next few weeks.