Birds of a Feather

A yawning Black Headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) heads up a gang of preening birds on a dull and misty morning at Whittlingham Lake, Norwich. They are sociable birds and tend to stick together in groups usually all facing the same direction. Unlike a weathervane their bodies, and particularly their feathers, are optimized to face into the wind so usually they indicate the direction the wind is blowing from. However, on this occasion the air was so still I was able to capture this unusual image of tail feathers pointing in different directions.