Comments on: What’s Your Take? Gull/Baby Puffin Predation? Extensive Clean-up or Not Quite Enough? Digital Eye Doctor Special https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2016/10/29/whats-your-take-gullbaby-puffin-predation-extensive-clean-up-or-not-quite-enough-digital-eye-doctor-special/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Fri, 11 Nov 2016 21:42:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: David Policansky https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2016/10/29/whats-your-take-gullbaby-puffin-predation-extensive-clean-up-or-not-quite-enough-digital-eye-doctor-special/comment-page-1/#comment-1740029 Fri, 11 Nov 2016 21:42:25 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=35629#comment-1740029 Hi, Artie. Late to this party because I was on the trip with you. And on that trip, there was some spectacular predation, when leopard seals were preying on king penguins that were somewhat trapped in the slush near shore resulting from 6 inches of snow. Easy pickings for the seals. Along with many others on the trip, I photographed that predation. It wasn’t easy to watch but it’s part of life (and death) and it happened. In addition, there was a lot of scavenging going on, which I photographed as well. But I won’t be putting any of those images on the walls, while I will put up some of the others I made down there.

I would have not doctored the eye feathers on your image. Predation isn’t neat and clean, and the predator can get a bit messy, too. The messy eye feathers on the gull, FOR ME, add to the whole impression.

]]> By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2016/10/29/whats-your-take-gullbaby-puffin-predation-extensive-clean-up-or-not-quite-enough-digital-eye-doctor-special/comment-page-1/#comment-1739848 Sun, 06 Nov 2016 13:39:08 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=35629#comment-1739848 In reply to Glen Fox.

Thanks and good on all counts Glen. I am one of the few who always roots for the predators …

Later and love from Ushuaia, Argentina. artie

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