I generally do not pay much attention to gulls when I am out with my camera, but this Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) was so loud and so close last weekend at Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge that it was impossible to ignore. I love the juxtaposition between the tensed, emotion-filled pose of the gull in the foreground and the blasé attitude of the gull in the background, who has clearly heard this screaming multiple times and was not in the least impressed by it.
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Mike Powell 
LOL! Not to be sexist here, but it almost looks like the stereotypical husband/wife caricature from many sitcoms of old!.
I hadn’t thought about that angle, but you are exactly right!
Nice one! For beauty it is quite hard to match the strikingly clean colours of a gull I think…but you have to wonder how they stay so clean with their typical lifestyle. 😀
What a great shot! You do wonder what the quiet gull is thinking . 🙂