Flycatching

I'm pretty sure it isn't flying ant season but judging by the crowds of gulls circling about today there must have been a mass emergence of something small. I first noticed a couple of dozen gulls — mostly lesser black-backs with a few black-headed gulls — in a feeding frenzy flying high over Davyhulme Circle as I waited for the bus. Fifty-odd lesser black-backs were circling over the Trafford Centre with a similarly sized flock of black-headed gulls over Barton Bridge. Getting off at Salford Royal there were a couple of dozen lesser black-backs. Times like this you wish you'd brought your binoculars with you when hospital visiting. It would be just my luck for a YLG or a Med gull to be in the crowds.