My Saturday Bird this week is the Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus), a small gull that breeds in much of the Palearctic.
The birds in the photo are winter plumage adults who lost their dark head feathers in the autumn. They’re standing in a shallow section of Hurleston Reservoir near Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England, a lot of them are preening.
In the 1990s Hurleston Reservoir was the location of a large winter gull roost that included thousands of Black-headed Gulls.
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I always think they’d make a lovely wallpaper as the reflections and colours are always so lovely when they come together
To be honest I never really consider photos for wallpaper. I’ve used plain mid grey on my desktop computers for decades as it allows me to judge colour balance more accurately. I do the same on my tablets out of habit mainly as I can’t see the wallpaper most of the time.
ooh I love my wallpapers, cheers me up when I first turn the machines on!