This Morning Outside

by Diane Porter

September 18, 2011
Birdwatching Dot Com
Fairfield, Iowa

I love to watch a gull walk. With each step, the raised foot folds up like a busted umbrella and hangs down rag limp for a moment. Also it gets me the way the yellow of the ring-billed gull's foot matches the beak. And then the eye bounces one more yellow spot at me.

This ring-billed gull trod the pavement on the pier at Lakeside, Ohio this morning, along with birders enjoying the Midwest Birding Symposium. Which, by the way, was way fun.

Photo copyright 2011 Michael and Diane Porter

—Diane Porter

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