Scenes from the life of the Black-headed Gull

You have Black-headed Gulls that bob along with the waves stamp their feet in place to lure worms to the surface defend their offspring against attackers. And of course, they have that spectacular transition in their plumage. The razor-sharp, chocolate-brown head during the breeding season was a patchy white head earlier in the year. The most remarkable Black-headed Gull is surely the one at the end of this video. It circles over the dike near Paesens under the watchful eyes of a flock of sheep. There is an inland lake there with a noisy, large Black-headed Gull colony. Short-eared Owls can regularly be seen between the lake and the dike. I suspect that this Black-headed Gull imagines itself to be a Short-eared Owl.