Wednesday, February 19, 2014
There was a lot of scrapping over a dead perch on the Eton Wick flood this morning, between a heron, several crows, and a pair of great black-backed gulls.
One of the gulls snatched the perch from the heron and flew down the flood with it. The second gull followed and three crows got in on the act. The heron indignantly fought back and put the gulls to flight; but having gained possession again, the heron eventually discarded the fish and left the crows to share it!
Meanwhile the sulky-looking black-backs sailed around on the flood and indulged in a bit of light vandalism.
As I walked back along the Jubilee River they flew over me and landed - amid protest from black-headed gulls - on a tiny island on East Marsh.
But, mobbed by black-headed gulls and possibly fed up with my attentions, the great black-backs eventually flew off west. A skylark was seen in the grass on Monument Hill and later in the sky singing.
// posted by Christine @ 8:41 AM 
