backlit soaring laughing gull against blue sky

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Backlit Soaring Laughing Gull against Blue Sky

With wings spread, as seen from below,a backlit white and black laughing gull in mating plumage (black head, red-tipped bill) soars against the blue sky between wind-whipped white clouds.