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Ring-billed_Gull,
Sunset Beach, NC, 04/02/08
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Feeding
the Gulls, Ft. Fisher Ferry, 12/24/06
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Great
Black-Backed Gulls on Sunset Beach on 12/02/06 (L) and 11/30/06
(R)
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Cherry
Grove Beach, SC, 11/16/06
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Juvenile
Great Black-Backed Gull, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/24/06. This gull
let me get within one foot of him. I think I could have touched
him.
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Laughing
Gull Preening, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/13/06
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Gulls
flying over dune before sunset, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/13/06
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Herring
Gull losing juvenile plumage and molting into adulto. Photo
by my brother Chris Spitzer taken on Ocean Isle Beach Pier,
10/07/06
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Juvenile
Great Black-Backed Gulls, Sunset Beach, NC, 09/22/06
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Ring-billed
gull, Sunset Beach, NC, 09/01/06
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A bad
hair day on Bird Island, 07/30/06
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Ring-billed
Gull, 07/26/07
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This
photo might seem out of place on a webpage about gulls. However,
when I take animals to the Ft. Fisher Aquarium, I take a ferry.
I bring Cheetos and my camera. On this recent day, there was
an entire busload of school children that I asked to feed the
gulls for me. They did not know that scores of gulls would appear
suddenly appear out of nowhere! Instead of photographing the
gulls as planned, I began to photograph the children. The boy
in the white shirt pitched each Cheeto like a baseball. At the
end, a gull pooped on one boy's shirt. When he approached me
with a forlorn face, I cleaned his shirt with a sani-wipe and
then let him see the animals in the back of my car. It was a
terrific ferry ride.
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Ring-billed
Gull
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