Late day, low tide. Interesting gull behaviour.
The gulls would glide, five to ten metres above the ocean, then lean back sharply to deploy their air brakes. Next, they’d flip almost 180 degrees and drop head first into the metre deep water, and come up with lunch in a shell.
The bird above kindly flew close by and directly into the diffuse main light (aka late day winter sunlight) while showing off its catch.
Wow, what an amazing sight and how awesome to catch such a sharp photo! I hope he was able to get his dinner out of that shell.
There were quite a few gulls working the shallows. They’d fly high toward the rocky beach, release the shell and…dinner was ready.
(photo is uncropped; lens was long and bird was very close)