I don’t have any great affection for Western Seagulls. I think it’s because there are so many of them and they’re here year-round, so I just don’t see them anymore.

However, a friend pointed out a Western Seagull nest at the launch ramp at the Port of Gold Beach. No matter how you feel about seagulls, babies are babies and almost universally cute. So, I’m now photographing them.

Here’s the nest, atop some pilings, and I think that may be Mom and Dad watching over them.

I wondered why the one here was peering into the other side of the nest.

He or she was about to pay its other sibling a visit.

Maybe it was just trying to get away from the sibling that was crowding it with its wings. Whatever its intentions, if it falls, it’s about 15 feet to the floating dock and the water below, and these guys can’t fly, yet.

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