“Nice Day” On The Beach

After a spell of highly unsettled weather in Erie County, Pennsylvania, looks like it might be a nice day (Wednesday) today, w/ some sunshine. Weather Saturday was unusually warm (above 17 deg C / 63 deg F) with localized thunderstorms, Sunday it turned colder with mixed wintery precipitation, sometimes locally heavy, then cloudy/cold/windy since then. These photographs taken on the beach at Sunset Point on Sunday at Presque Isle State Park, under amazingly unpleasant (very windy and bitterly cold) conditions.

All Ring-billed Gull unless noted otherwise:

Herring Gull @ center
Herring Gull (adult) @ rear
Juvenile Herring Gull
Juvenile Herring Gull II
Juvenile Herring Gull III (upper left)
Mixed gulls
Juvenile Ring-billed Gull (foreground)

Following juvenile Ring-billed Gull (left) + adult Ring-billed Gull (right):


Coming up soon, more gulls! Also more ducks! Maybe falcon activity.