• Since the beginning of containment, scenes around the world show that nature is taking back its rights.
  • In Nice, an AFP photographer drew the portrait of a gull installed on the pebbles of the Promenade des Anglais, which usually hosts deckchairs.

"On the abandoned beach" ... This gull brooding its eggs seems to know the song. Captured by the lens of the Nice photographer Valéry Hache, the volatile, alone on the pebbles of a deserted promenade des Anglais, took advantage of the confinement to install his nest just in front of the sea.

"The photo was taken on Monday afternoon," said Agence France Presse [AFP] correspondent at 20 Minutes . I was on the beach with a journalist for a report when we saw it, a few tens of meters away. It was installed on a kind of small pebble mound. I took out my telephoto lens to stay away and not scare it. "

On the deserted beach of # Nice06 # snapshot of a #goeland on its nest # Covid_19 #AFPphoto https://t.co/zRIOkGkHvq pic.twitter.com/PmhIdtDDDY

- Valery HACHE (@ValeryHache) April 27, 2020

In place of the deckchairs

The photoreporter does not approach within 20 m. The gull Leucophée, whose species, not very fierce, is rather unloved in Nice for its rather invasive character, chose its spot opposite the quay of the United States. It is actually the end, to the east, of the Promenade des Anglais. In normal times, the space would have been covered by the deckchairs of the Castel, an institution among the private beaches of Nice. However, access to all beaches is prohibited for the public.

"A few seconds later, a drone passed over the beach and the gull flew away," continues Valéry Hache. I took the opportunity to move forward. There were two eggs large enough in a fairly basic tangle of pieces of wood and tissue. The journalist remakes some photos and departs again so as not to "disturb more" this nature which has regained its rights thanks to confinement.

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And "it is especially true for birds, they go out more, settle in places where we see them little usually", explained a short 20 minutes ago specialists from the Calanques national park, in the Bouches-du Rhône neighbors.

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