<p>Joe-Ming Cheng</p><p>Feb 21, 2020, 8:00am, near Yacht House, Shoreline Park</p> <p>Mew Gull is a less common gull in SF Bay Area than California Gull and the larger Coast Seagull. Young, male adult, female Mew Gulls each has its distinct feather tone. Breading female Mew Gull has yellow eye and red ring around the eye.</p><p>The mother Mew Gull’s gourmet mussel meal began as photo number：</p><p>八張照片 讓大家看懂 成熟母 Mew Gull 吃蚌的故事：</p> <p>Looked left, making sure no other predictor is around.</p> <p>Looked and checked the right side, now she felt secured.</p> <p>She turned the mussel 90 degrees in her mouth.</p><p>第1⋯3張，母 Gull 看左邊，看右，沒惡漢搶，放心了！將螃在口中轉90度： </p> <p>She then pitched the mussel to ground.</p> <p>Picked up the mussel and pitched again.</p><p>第4，5，提起⋯⋯再擲下…前後五次！</p> <p>After the fifth slam, the mussel opened the shells mistakenly as it thought it had landed in safe ground; or, simply just disoriented.</p><p>第五次…蚌以為地震已去，自己把大門打開！</p> <p>Gull took a quick jab straight down.</p> <p>Gull enjoyed the morning gourmet, finally!</p><p>第7, 8, 母 gull , 快喙直下，一塊五星級鮮肉下口！</p>