Swarm

This is what happens when you feed the gulls!  

 

On Thin Ice

Five days after our recent snow, after a string of cold days and nights there's still a skim of ice on the lake.  Enough for a gull to stand on.  I think it's too thin for anything else.

 

Frozen

The cold front that swept the country during Christmas got to Raleigh as well.  Most of Shelly Lake froze.  The sea gulls had to stand on the ice.  

 

Into the wind

It was breezy on the lake, and the sea gulls lined up into the wind.

 

A gathering place

There must have been a lot of fish gathered.  The herons, cormorants and gulls were looking for something.

 

Log rolling gulls

I don't think they meant to do it, but every time the log they stood on rolled, the gulls did a little dance.

 

So where's the sea?

Does this sea gull know he's 130 miles from the ocean?  

 

Water's edge

The sea gull was trying to ignore the trash.

Windy day

It was a windy day on Falls Lake.  The rain was moving in, and the sea gulls were having a great time soaring around.