Birds of the Massachusetts Coast

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"Off We Go!" ... A few instants after the previous shot the Herring Gull dropped down, grabbed the unbroken whelk, and flew off, doubtless in search of a rockier shore to break it on. Ellen Jedrey (assistant director of Mass Audubon’s CWP) told me that she’d used this shot as her computer desktop. I take this as a real compliment, especially since people working with shorebirds aren’t usually partial to gulls–they’re aggressive and sometimes harass smaller birds such as plovers.
Copyright © 2007 John Van de Graaff

"Off We Go!" ... A few instants after the previous shot the Herring Gull dropped down, grabbed the unbroken whelk, and flew off, doubtless in search of a rockier shore to break it on. Ellen Jedrey (assistant director of Mass Audubon’s CWP) told me that she’d used this shot as her computer desktop. I take this as a real compliment, especially since people working with shorebirds aren’t usually partial to gulls–they’re aggressive and sometimes harass smaller birds such as plovers.

Bird Photographs by John Van de Graaff