Safe Landing

Not a clue what birds these are, possibly Herring Gulls?
5 or 6 were standing around, taking off, whirling about in the sky and landing, and apparently having a ball. With my 70-300mm telephoto lens, just following them was hard enough (lots of photographs of sky) but on review, I had a few really good ones, this of one just about to land, being the best.

[Carole Sandford]

Great capture. We had so much fun taking these!

[John Sutton]

Nice shot Phil.

[Phil Sandford]

@johnsutton Thanks John: deleted so many empty sky, or blurred smudges 😊

[Minifignation]

Nicely caught

[Valerie Chesney]

Super capture, Phil, landing gear down!!!!

[Margo]

Great capture FAV Thankyou for following me. I live in the sub tropics(Queensland Australia). Like your pics so will follow you

[Joanna kate]

Terrific action, intent on landing!!!

[Phil Sandford]

@minifignation @happysnaps Thank you both. Really quite pleased with this one.

[Phil Sandford]

@joannakate Thank you. They are juvenile Herring Gulls (had it confirmed) and were seemingly having a ball)

[Phil Sandford]

@777margo Thank you, for the comment, Fav and follow. (I'll try to live up to it)

[Margo]

@phil_sandford You have already!!

[Jenfurj]

Lovely capture. I like the textures of the feathers and the landing gear down.

[Phil Sandford]

@365projectorgjenfurj Thank you. Took many an attempt to get one :-)

[bri]

Great timing, great shot.

[Phil Sandford]

@bryan999 Thank you. They certainly don't pose for you