Is It A Plane?

[poliphilo]

I could hear an airliner- and thought I'd spotted it- and then the white cruciform object veered away from its forward course in a tight curve- and I realised it was a gull.

I wonder why gulls venture so far inland. Ailz suggests it's for the rubbish dumps but if it's food they're after why would they fly so high? I like to think its for the pure existential pleasure of being up there, riding the thermals.

Comments

[cmcmck]

We get 'em here and we're as far from the sea as it's possible to be in the UK! They like investigating field crops and field edges.

Ever read 'Jonathan Livingstone Seagull'?

[poliphilo]

I remember it having a vogue, but I never read it.