Black-tailed godwits, Leighton Moss

Saturday, 18 April 2020

Grisly goings-on

A fairly quiet day. Both the crow's nest and the magpie's nest seem to have been abandoned with nothing doing the past couple of days.

A couple of lesser black-backed gulls spent half an hour on the school playing field, making a racket and displaying to each other. They disappeared for ten minutes then reappeared, one of them carrying what looked like a mole. It made a bad fist of trying to swallow it whole in flight and dropped it on landing. The two of them spent a good half minute staring at the dead lump of meat on the ground then set to a couple of minutes' tug-o-war, eventually getting half a meal each.

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