Silver Gull

* a silver gull diving for bread *

I must admit that I do not really like icy cold wind temperature during winter but I must also admit that I always wait for the snow to fall. And I’ve waited since December  of last year for it, and finally happen just 2 days ago.

Since photography is one of my hobbies, I find it wonderful to shoot outside when everything is blanketed by white.  But do you know what else excites me to shoot (with my camrea, ahem?)  Birds.

Most of them are migratory. Like this Silver Gull or Red-Beeked Gull. These birds have great hunger during winter so I always bring breads with me for feed.

In return they do provide me with marvelous opportunities such as this!

Man with his birds.

One Saturday while walking on the busy streets of Rotterdam, I saw this man and his colorful parrots, entertaining people passing by. He wasn’t asking for money or anything…I guess he was just happy to put his feathered friends on display and also let them enjoy the lovely temperature that is slowly rising on this part of the planet.

aren’t those birds gorgeous?! look at the colors….magnificent creatures!

And they are trained too! The man told me: ‘ready your camera because they are going to kiss’ and they did! The man then asked me if I wanted my pictures taken with  his parrots, he’ll take the shots..I said ‘sure’.

But why ruin these images by adding mine? :P