There are a lot of birds which attack - gulls and striated caracaras because you are near their chicks, terns because you are there, skuas because they are skuas….
Brown-hooded gulls & terns
& a sneak preview of King Ps
Terns
Striated caracara:
These can kill Upland geese
Caracara & Elephant seals
and then the much less common and not easy to get close to, the Southern Caracara, only seen on Pebble & Sea Lion Islands
3 at the top of the tree
- the same 3 later
but I got too close
The Turkey Vulture doesn’t attack
Vultures & Rockhoppers
Kelp gulls
- why I was being mobbed
Dolphin gull
Skua with chick
A challenge
Waiting for easy pickings
a Skua chick looks weedy and pathetic – how does it grow into this -
I wouldn’t be so close if I hadn’t been in a car
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