I
was coming down Highdown when I spotted some more birds to photograph
- no, not the pigeons on the fence as I did not see those this trip,
but more seagulls. They were following after a tractor that was
ploughing a field in the PYO farm. Obviously some bugs or crop
leftovers had attracted them, the same way they follow a fishing boat
to catch left over bait/discarded fish pieces...
The
following day, I was busily changing clothes from grubby jeans and
t-shirt into track pants and skivvy ready to go out for the fourth
trip of five, when I spotted a nosy face at my window. 'Chip chip
cheeeeeeep, chirpy chip chip cherp'... Mrs Bob was peeping in
DEMANDING food!
September
arrived at its last week and I got a photograph of one of the
sparrows on my tree. It was supposed to be a photo of it shelling a
seed - but I was a fraction of a second out of time, so it just looks
like a sparrow bending its head.
Next
on the tree, Ditty! Ditty and partner can be told apart as Ditty does
not have a bumpy feather patch on top the head and the partner does.
Ditty and partner are beginning to become more regular visitors to the
tree/my windowsill now that I am venturing to put out more seed/suet
on the sill, hoping that rat problems are over and done with.
It's interesting how the seagulls follow the tractor. I wonder if it's unearthing worms as it turns the soil.
ReplyDeleteI expect it must be worms or some bug of some sort.... something tasty in the gulls' eyes!
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