Gulls, Gulls and More Gulls

As I watched these gulls and clicked away to the tune of over 100 pictures, I thought they are just like people, no love or caring for each other, Me, Me, Mine, Mine they screeched.
If you Click on the next 3 photos and carefully look at each bird, you will see attitudes that are strangely similar to we humans.

Screaming at each other, pecking and biting and flapping and fighting. They all wanted the food source, a floating dead jelly fish. No sharing, no love, no caring. Just it's mine, it's mine. look at their faces.

Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law Romans 13:10

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
- Agnes Repplier

Only 8 inches tall  this baby gull, had attitude. He stared me down as I clicked away, I was laughing out loud as he appeared to stand with his hands on his hip, indignant that I was interrupting his search for food.

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Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others . . . And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
- Walt Whitman

A self-centered man admitted:: "Sure, I know that the Bible says to love our neighbors as ourselves. But frankly, I don't believe that my neighbors can stand all that affection."
- Anonymous

Beach Birds

Willett     YIPPE KI YEAHHH

Some of you asked about the name, Beer Can Island. I had to look up the real name, because all my life that is all I knew it by. the real name is Greer Island.

It is not actually an island, but a landform created by cureents and is referred to as a "hooked spit". it is a curved sand bar and creates a sheltered place for boaters to pull up on the sandy beach.

Now it is open only from Daw to 10 PM year round, with no parking allowed for the public. The beach is part of Exclusive Longboat Key city and is home to very high in condos and homes and only very limited access to the beaches. there are 11 parking spots where we park to walk the mile of so. most people prefer by boat. the residents of Longboat do not want the public there but in order to get federal assisantance with beach erosion, they have to have a certain number of spaces open to the general public, which is ME.   (if someone gave us a house there, we could not pay the taxes)

Gulls

It got the name of Beer Can island years and years ago because it was a popular spot for parties and they left behind their trash. now is is patroled and protected, and it is rare to see a beer can there. I never have. It is posted no alcohol and no dogs off leash.

 Nature is the art of God....... Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mother was born in 1926 and as a teen this was a very popular place to go by boat. Nothing there but dunes when she was a teen, no big houses just miles and miles of beaches.