I was waiting for the commiseratory ‘it’s flown’ text which never came and less than an hour later, I was watching a pretty docile 1st Winter Glaucous Gull. No problem with motion blur with this subject – it hardly ever moved!
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A couple of head turns.....
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The alert pose.
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A bit of a stretch of those lovely ‘white wings’ and you could see what was going to come next.....
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Up up and away!
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Lets hope it stays around for some better light!