I knew this gull was going to drop the fish before he did. There was just something about the lackadaisical way he was handling it. For one thing, some birds have enough sense to take their catch to a spot where, if they do drop it, they can recover it. For example, I watched a snowy egret one morning catching fish and, each time he caught one, he would bring it back up on the beach where he could easily pick it up if it fell - which a few of them did. The gull could have easily landed on the dock instead of the piling but, no, he had to land in a spot where, if he dropped the fish, it was going back in the water. And, sure enough, after fooling with it a little bit, it fell. It is also possible that he realized the fish was too large to swallow and simply decided to drop it.
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