I was at Newport (California) one day. The surf had cut a berm in the sand sort of like this

(land)--------\________ (ocean)

and I sat on the berm facing the sea and wind. About 20 feet to my left was a large pelican on the same berm. He finally decided I was bad company and he spread his wings - just held them out to the sides - and the wind lifted him straight up. At about 15 feet high he did no more than turn his head to the left and this changed his whole aerodynamic form, he turned and sailed away, still without otherwise moving a muscle.

Salt Lake has seagulls just like the ocean does. Probly everyone knows the legend of the seagulls that saved the Latter-day Saints when they first arrived there. Brigham Young said something about the dove flying gracefully, but I've never seen them do that. Maybe he said seagull and the clerk wrote down dove. Your seagull is one of the most graceful flight artists I've ever seen.