One of the great things about being out on the waterfront in the early morning is the way that, on certain mornings, you will see dozens of seagulls flying north up the Hudson River. They all fly in the same direction, and I’m not sure where they are going, but it gives me a feeling of connectedness with nature to be standing there with a constant stream of them flying overhead. This mini-migration seems to last for at least 30 minutes.

Looking out across the river at the sunrise, it was more challenging than you might think to capture a seagull in just the right spot of my photo frame, because most of them were either directly overhead or too far off in the distance.