It seemed a shame to be wasting what's probably going to be the last fine day of the month — certainly the last fine day before a week's worth of weather warnings — but I'd barely had two hours' sleep before the cat became impatient for her breakfast at nine and there were domestic errands to be run.
I'm not sure if it's the subtle change in the weather prior to the storm front, a freak of Friday or whatever but the large gulls were out in force on the school playing field this lunchtime. At one point there were nineteen herring gulls and six lesser black-backs with the usual quota of a dozen black-headed gulls and a common gull.
The birds in the back garden are having to make do with suet pellets and fat balls at the moment, there were no black sunflower seeds in the shop and I'm not paying the current prices for sunflower hearts (the casing of a sunflower seed is not two-thirds of its weight). They've probably been bought up by people planning on gaming their garden birdwatch results next weekend. I scattered a bag of mealworms for the blackbirds, robins and dunnocks and they were immediately hoovered up by a neighbour's cat which will probably go home and turn its nose up at whatever expensive treat its owner's put in its bowl.
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