GULLS ON A WINDY DAY

 

 

One windy day recently,

I saw this flock of gulls all bunched up on the beach.

I decided to see how close I could get

with my camera

before they spooked. 



About 40 gulls, beaks to the wind, gathered together.



When I started "shooting" them, I was about 30-40 feet away.



Some left, some stayed. "That camera is getting too close!"

"OK Guys, we're out of here. She just keeps walking toward us.
Maybe she's coming in the water, too!"



These two were stoics*. "Na! She won't come in. Besides, I have to rest my foot!"

By the time they all took off, I was in the surf without realizing I had gone that far.

 

There goes the last of the flock.

 

 They'll be back once I'm gone.

 

*Stoic: a member of an ancient Greek school of philosophy that asserted that happiness can only be achieved

by accepting life's ups and downs as the products of unalterable destiny.

The school was founded around 308 bc by Zeno.