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Photo of the Day: Domestic Dispute

May 24, 2022 | 9:47 AM
in ABSURDITY, ART, OUTDOORS
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When asked who was who and what was going on, photographer Jeff French Segall wrote, ” In today’s world, it’s difficult not to fall into gender-roles. So I won’t. Gull-left is saying, “You never listen to me, but I’m always right, and you know it,” and gull-right is thinking “I’m not going to waste any more time with this argument. I’ve heard it all before. You bore me!”

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Chris
Chris
3 years ago

These are double-crested cormorants. Not gulls. Here is their actual dialogue.

Cormorant #1: Damn, people who write for the press never do learn how to ID us, do they?

Cormorant #2: It’s even worse at the New York Times, man.

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maria
maria
3 years ago
Reply to  Chris

I love this Comment! SO NY

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JFS
JFS
3 years ago
Reply to  Chris

Of course, they’re cormorants. Will correct the dialogue immediately. Thank you for your kind comments!

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LivableCity
LivableCity
3 years ago
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Lol!

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Lisa
Lisa
3 years ago
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Love it – only in NYC would a commenter be able to immediately correct a wrong bird identification. Can’t get away with anything around here.

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Win
Win
3 years ago

Those are Common Cormorants, not gulls…

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A. Marie
A. Marie
3 years ago

Left: “Do you have anything to say for the West Side Rag?”

Right: “No cormorant.”

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Parker
Parker
3 years ago
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Perfect!

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T. W. Baskins
T. W. Baskins
3 years ago

Left Maloney: Jerry are you up for this or not.
Right Nadler: What a carpetbagger Carolyn is and to think we used to be friends.

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Patricia Gilman
Patricia Gilman
3 years ago

HA

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Helene Russo
Helene Russo
3 years ago

Could be titled “He Said, She Said”.

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West Side Rag
3 years ago

Cormorant-left: “Stop sulking. So they made a mistake. You’re not a gull.”

Cormorant-right: (sulking.)

WSR: Thanks cormoranters for straightening us out!

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Susan T.
Susan T.
3 years ago

Great photo! A definite pick-me-up! Thanks for posting it.

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NYMagCaptioner
NYMagCaptioner
3 years ago

Left: “No… for the last time, that’s not south, it’s north…

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Mary A., another NYer
Mary A., another NYer
3 years ago
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Left cormorant [dialogue adjustment]: “That’s not downtown; it’s uptown.”

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Judith
Judith
3 years ago

Aren’t they cormorants?

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Social Quipster
Social Quipster
3 years ago

It’s easier to read lips than it is to read beaks. But are you sure the conversation isn’t social commentary? “Look at that guy with his head in his phone. He just walked into a light pole.”

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Sally
Sally
3 years ago

Where was the photo taken? Cormorants usually like to be near the water.

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Jeff French Segall
Jeff French Segall
3 years ago
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To the comment: “Where was this photo taken?”
At the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park. The top of the Northern pump house is a favorite resting place for birds of various species, my favorite ones being the cormorants. The shot was definitely NOT taken by drone. I was standing between one and two hundred feet from the site using a medium power zoom lens to grab the shot. How I mislabeled the birds as “gulls” can only be attributed to a slip of the “pen” so to speak. At the time, there were also many gulls sharing the same resting area. Who knows? I’m just glad that some readers enjoyed the shot and offered your own dialogues. They were fun to read.

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Gaynor
Gaynor
3 years ago

“Why do you two always ignore me?” Anyone else see three birds?

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Julia Z.
Julia Z.
3 years ago
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Yes I also see three birds!

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Ellen
Ellen
3 years ago

Those are cormorants!

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JILL GILL
JILL GILL
3 years ago

“They went thataway…”

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Fran Manushkin
Fran Manushkin
3 years ago

The birds are not gulls. They are cormorants.

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Diana
Diana
3 years ago

this is fabulous…xo

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Natalie
Natalie
3 years ago

Was this photo taken by a drone?

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Henny was my hero
Henny was my hero
3 years ago

Drat! So they are NOT Gulls!
Spoils the chance for this great caption: “What’s a nice Gull like you doing on a roof like this?

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Marc Luxemburg
Marc Luxemburg
3 years ago

they are cormorants – not gulls.

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JL
JL
3 years ago

Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks”…

I know, I know, not hawks, not gulls…

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