Camouflage Perfection! #Wordless Wednesday #Where’s Waldo, Seagull style

Posted on January 8, 2025 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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38 Responses to Camouflage Perfection! #Wordless Wednesday #Where’s Waldo, Seagull style

  1. Pam Lazos's avatar Pam Lazos says:
    January 8, 2025 at 6:45 am

    handsome guy!

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  2. Barbara Rodgers's avatar Barbara Rodgers says:
    January 8, 2025 at 8:02 am

    The way he’s cocking his head in the second picture makes him seem quizzical. Maybe he’s wondering how you managed to spot him since he blends in so well. He’s young, yet, and still has much to learn about humans and their strange behaviors!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      January 8, 2025 at 8:10 pm

      Barbara, I almost used that second picture of him cocking his head for the featured image as I like when birds do that, or dogs too – it is like their brains are processing the situation. He sure does blend into his surroundings and I didn’t notice it until I saw it on the screen. Like most seagulls he had no fear of me (and I had no treats for him), so he probably wondered about my fascination with him!

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  3. Kate Crimmins's avatar Kate Crimmins says:
    January 8, 2025 at 8:12 am

    Camouflage indeed! I had a gray tabby with a lot of shades of gray. One day I was calling her and couldn’t find her. She was about 10 foot in front of me. she was sitting in front of a tree trunk and blended right in. Nature is wonderful. Great shots again.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      January 8, 2025 at 8:13 pm

      That’s funny Kate – your kitty was probably thinking “why does the Peep keep calling me and I’m sitting right here?!?!” Glad you liked the pictures – I didn’t notice the camouflage look until I saw it on the screen!

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  4. derrycats's avatar derrycats says:
    January 8, 2025 at 8:47 am

    Wonderful shots with the bird blending so well into the background!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      January 8, 2025 at 8:14 pm

      Thank you Debra! That young seagull had no fear of me, so I kept inching closer to it in this pebbly parking lot. I didn’t even notice the background matched the seagull until I saw it on the screen at home!

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  5. AnnMarie R stevens's avatar AnnMarie R stevens says:
    January 8, 2025 at 9:49 am

    Miss Linda………………………………Yep…………………perfect camouflage!!!!

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  6. J P's avatar J P says:
    January 8, 2025 at 11:25 am

    “Where’s someone eating something? I’m sure they want to share with me!”

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  7. Laurie's avatar Laurie says:
    January 8, 2025 at 2:29 pm

    The baby seagulls use camo, but the adults, not so much. I wonder why. Seems like the grown-ups would benefit from camouflage too.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      January 8, 2025 at 8:22 pm

      Good question Laurie – they have predators too. I like their camo color as opposed to plain white … this little guy was cute. I got pretty close to him and he didn’t fly away and I liked the head tilt … made me smile. Oddly enough, I didn’t see the camouflage effect until I had the image on the screen.

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  9. Terri Webster Schrandt's avatar Terri Webster Schrandt says:
    January 8, 2025 at 10:56 pm

    What a cute juvenile and quite handsome too, Linda! He really does blend in!

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  10. rajkkhoja's avatar rajkkhoja says:
    January 9, 2025 at 12:02 am

    Nature is wonderful. Great shots again. Beautiful Seagull. God bless u Linda.

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  11. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog's avatar Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    January 10, 2025 at 2:03 am

    So nice to see seagulls… very nice shots! 😊 Still there are none to be seen in our area. I miss seeing them here. I sure hope that they show up again. Maybe the bird flu hit hard in our area… i don’t know.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      January 10, 2025 at 7:46 pm

      Thank you Tom. I don’t very often see the juvenile seagulls, mostly just the adults, but I really liked this guy or gal’s camouflage covering. As to the bird flu, years ago my mom and I went to visit my grandmother in Toronto for about almost four days and on the Sunday when we came home I went in the backyard to give water to the birds and garden and there were about a dozen Blue Jays dead in the yard. It was at the height of the bird flu, in the early 80s and the news stations had sent out info that we were to contact the DNR to have the DNR pick up the bodies to analyze them. Necropsies came back and all of them had died from the avian flu. It was an awful sight to see those beautiful birds strewn about the yard. The bird flu is hitting hard in our area lately and this morning they said there were eight human cases, but the news story clarified that the it was unknown if it was backyard birds or chickens. (I thought that was odd but scary for those who routinely feed the birds). I guess we put this on our list of worries along with COVID, the flu, RSV and norovirus which comprise our local “quademic” as they refer to the influx of illness so soon after the holidays. I worry one day this avian flu will spread so extensively, it will take out all our birds, if climate change doesn’t do them in first.

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  12. singlikewildflowers's avatar singlikewildflowers says:
    January 10, 2025 at 3:59 am

    Amazing camouflage! This is my first time seeing a young seagull. How did you spot him?

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      January 10, 2025 at 7:50 pm

      Yes, it is Esther! I don’t see the youngsters very often, mostly the adults. He was kind of cute with his speckled plumage. To be honest, I took pictures of him as he was so close and looking straight at me and I liked that little head tilt too, but when I got the images on the screen I could see how he blended into the background as the parking lot was not paved, just a pebbly surface in most places. I got this shot the same day as those colorful Caspian Terns and the Osprey in the nest … a good picture day!

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  14. lindalouslife's avatar lindalouslife says:
    January 11, 2025 at 11:08 pm

    Excellent camouflage!

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  15. indianeskitchen's avatar indianeskitchen says:
    January 12, 2025 at 12:28 am

    He definitely blends right in!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      January 12, 2025 at 7:28 pm

      Yes, he does doesn’t he? Amazingly, I really didn’t notice it at the time as I was surprised I could get that close to him and he wasn’t spooked, so I didn’t notice the camouflage look until I got the images on the computer screen.

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  17. TD's avatar TD says:
    January 13, 2025 at 4:51 pm

    If this was my pet seagull, it would be named Pebbles!

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