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!”
Other possibilities welcome.
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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.
I love this Comment! SO NY
Of course, they’re cormorants. Will correct the dialogue immediately. Thank you for your kind comments!
Lol!
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.
Those are Common Cormorants, not gulls…
Left: “Do you have anything to say for the West Side Rag?”
Right: “No cormorant.”
Perfect!
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.
HA
Could be titled “He Said, She Said”.
Cormorant-left: “Stop sulking. So they made a mistake. You’re not a gull.”
Cormorant-right: (sulking.)
WSR: Thanks cormoranters for straightening us out!
Great photo! A definite pick-me-up! Thanks for posting it.
Left: “No… for the last time, that’s not south, it’s north…
Left cormorant [dialogue adjustment]: “That’s not downtown; it’s uptown.”
Aren’t they cormorants?
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.”
Where was the photo taken? Cormorants usually like to be near the water.
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.
“Why do you two always ignore me?” Anyone else see three birds?
Yes I also see three birds!
Those are cormorants!
“They went thataway…”
The birds are not gulls. They are cormorants.
this is fabulous…xo
Was this photo taken by a drone?
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?
they are cormorants – not gulls.
Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks”…
I know, I know, not hawks, not gulls…