Yellow-legged Gull - Quidi Vidi Lake

 Everything was perfect. First, came the post on NF Birds about the Yellow-legged Gull being at Quidi Vidi Lake.

 I was free and made a quick dash to the lake.

 When I arrived, I went to the area where the Yellow-legged Gull was seen earlier.

 Settling in my car, I cleaned my binoculars and began the scan. Well, the glare was so severe I couldn't see any color variations among the gulls.

 Giving up on that, I decided to walk to the Virginia River inflow and get the sun behind me in order to get a better look.

 I didn't expect to see what I found wading around in the shallow water....THE Yellow-legged Gull!

There right in front of me, prancing around, splashing and preening.

 I had about ten minutes to watch it and wow! What yellow legs!

 Then, without notice, every bird on the water lifted off.

 I locked onto the Yellow-legs and followed them as far as I could before the gull vanished into the mob of swirling gulls.

 What a great and unexpected surprise today. Thanks to Bruce for his early post that made this possible.