The Laughing Gull – Larus atricilla – is a familiar bird on Florida shores.  Many of them winter here from the north and perhaps, our northern neighbors only see them with their familiar black head.  Down here in the winter though, that head turns white and in the spring it changes to it’s summer black.  Here are a couple of shots.  One shows a bird in flight which is in transition.  The other shows two birds at different stages.