On Parade!

Sticking with the gull theme, here's a small piece evoking memories from my trip to Central Asia in 2013. Pallas's Gulls! Who can resist these! One of my abiding memories was watching a group of c.170 birds on an island on one of the many lakes on the steppe. Amazingly, every bird was a corking summer-plumaged adult! Not one tatty sub-adult or one even coming into breeding finery. These are simply one of the best gull on God's green earth, and always a highlight of any trip. Such beasts merit something much more involving than this, but drawing these has given me more ideas. Watch this space!
Thanks for looking
Russ

Field sketches of Pallas's Gulls, Steppe near Astana, Kazakhstan, 17th May 2013

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