Some spring feelings from Grado/Italy

Photo-Sorko · Mar 5, 2019

Hey, I was there on sunday. What a beautiful day!

Greetings
Jürgen

Porky · Mar 5, 2019

That was close, that gull having a look at ya 1.41 into your vid

thouroghly enjoyed it though Thumbswayup

Photo-Sorko · Mar 5, 2019

Yeah, that was a close call. I'm not quite sure if the seagulls don't like drones or if they want to play. Because on one hand, they flew around the drone but on the other hand, they never looked like they’ll attack it. And they are accustomed to people. If you are walking on the beach they don’t get out of your path and they try to steal food. But I’m not an expert, so I kept my flights near them relatively short.

Porky · Mar 5, 2019

I have the same problem with gulls where I fly, at the moment I’ve been very lucky but things could change. One thing I have noticed though, they seem to stay away from me, pigeons though. totally different

they come out in gangs looking for trouble

Photo-Sorko · Mar 5, 2019

Pigeons are… pigeons. We had many of them in our village but since a few years there are some crows and magpies. Fortunately they don't like pigeons either.

Porky · Mar 5, 2019

Pigeons = vermin. Where I live, we’ve got so many of the bloody things

They fly around in gangs and beat drones up.... think I need a nice sparrow hawk to sort them out

Photo-Sorko · Mar 5, 2019

And here are two pictures:

Grado by Jürgen Sorko, auf Flickr

This one is just a still from the video. The quality is still amazing

Grado Beach by Jürgen Sorko, auf Flickr

Greetings
Jürgen

jarborra · Mar 5, 2019

That was a great video with some nice editing! Thanks for posting.

Photo-Sorko said:
Yeah, that was a close call. I'm not quite sure if the seagulls don't like drones or if they want to play. Because on one hand, they flew around the drone but on the other hand, they never looked like they’ll attack it. And they are accustomed to people. If you are walking on the beach they don’t get out of your path and they try to steal food. But I’m not an expert, so I kept my flights near them relatively short.

Yeah, I had issues with seagulls this summer in Sweden as well including a very near miss when a squadron of three flew in close formation to check out the drone: