Taken at the Irrigation Canal in Calgary, when friends Dorothy and Stephen invited me to go with them, on 15 October 2012. Unfortunately, the light was worse than I had realized and I had to delete most of my photos from that outing. For some reason, this one came out OK. These are very common Gulls, but I so rarely get to places where I can see one on the ground, within reasonable camera reach.

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