Herring Gull and Starling through a telescope

Here's a few pics I took from the back garden, of birds on nearby house roofs. It was interesting watching a herring Gull close up. It was about 50m away, and had no idea I was watching it, so it was behaving naturally. From a distance they look like they're just sat there, being bored, but through the telescope it was clear that they were always on the lookout for something interesting, craning their necks to get a better view:

Here's one on another chimney, also about 50m away:

From the look of the feathers, this one's only just become an adult - there's still some traces of the brown juvenile feathers around the head:

This one was doing some preening as well as looking around:

I got a few pics of a Starling too:

I'm not sure what it was finding in the chimney pot:

This one was also preening:

and then having a good shake afterwards to get the feathers straight

Finally, I took a photo to give you an impression of the level of magnification being used. Here's some trees, and I've not cropped the picture at all. From looking at a map, I think they are about 600m away:

Mike