Our weekend in St Davids was awash with birds, of all shapes and sizes,
it was the gulls who could make the most noise as soloists.
I’d never thought about a gull having a tongue!
Mrs Ogg had, she said that in some parts of the world, gulls tongues are a delicacy, but at a guess I’d say she wasn’t meaning in Pembrokeshire or Cambridgeshire.
* Gobby
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Watching the rhythm of rural life, from the top of a hill in northern England.
Having spent most of my life avoiding writing, I now need to do it!
I am no domestic goddess, but if I were expecting visitors to my home, I would whisk round with the duster and plump up the cushions and generally make the place look presentable. I hope that by putting my words where others may see them it will encourage me to ‘tidy up and push the Hoover around’ my writing.
On the other hand I may just be adding to the compost heap. Only time will tell!
Pull up a chair, sit yourself down, I’ll put the kettle on.
April 6, 2011 at 11:29 pm
That last one you timed the wave just right. Great pics.
April 7, 2011 at 7:13 am
Gulls are among my favourite birds after I spent a holiday observing a pair of herring gulls. They have a wide variety of calls from the “seep, seep, seep” of youngsters begging for food, through the low “ha-ha-ha” of resting birds to the flown-blown aggressive pulsating shriek which they can do from a standing position or even in flight. All the gulls in a locality know one another and have a hierarchical relationship on which depends who can push who off a favourite perch. Gulls are master fliers and seem able to manage any wind conditions with consummate skill and elegance. Their intelligence makes them very adaptable – as well as getting them into trouble with humans.
April 7, 2011 at 9:53 am
Getting them into trouble with humans…
That will be the gull that stole a Cornetto ice cream from my hand and gulped it down in one and the gull the that stole a sausage off the hot grill at a bar-b-que
April 7, 2011 at 1:46 pm
We’re far enough away from the coast to have only occasional visits from gulls – but enough to say they are extremely noisy when there’s food around! Which always seems to be right at the crack of dawn.
April 7, 2011 at 9:23 pm
Hi UHDD
Lovely pics, as always! I had a run in with a seagull in St Ives, I was happily eating an expensive banana ice cream, by the quay, when a very cheeky gull took it clean out of my hand! I was not impressed! it was so quick i never felt or heard him coming, im still looking 4 him
April 7, 2011 at 9:27 pm
Terrific photos, I especially like the last one! They are very vocal and I often hear the ones here at home when they’re wheeling about the sky out front. xx
April 8, 2011 at 11:00 am
Great shots of your noisy – and funny – friends here….
I’m back again from 10 weeks of travel and adventure I started to resume my home activities, including visiting my favorite blogs
- not least uphilldowndale!
(And – of course – organising and choosing some pictures from “Down under” for my own blog;-) )
April 8, 2011 at 2:37 pm
I like gulls. Don’t always like their behavior–they used to delight in making my little dog Jake’s life miserable–but it’s an absolute delight to watch them windsurf. I always wonder how they manage to stay so tidy. Those are elegant photos–and I did appreciate the translation.