Someone's having fun
- Crone
- 2 days ago
- 1 min read
I went out of the building for a little nicotine break. Funnily enough, I also regard it as "a breath of fresh air". Anyway, the first person i saw was an anxious moorhen.
John Lewis Sempel wrote that a moorhen makes a pond: it should be a law that every pond has at least one. They are very sweet. There were moorhen chicks here when I was working on the Summer Olympics.
Having spotted this bird, I noted two herring gulls having a wash.
They were having so much fun! They dive their heads under and flap. They shift their weight so they are almost on their sides and flap. They preen and relax. They make their feathers ruffled and then smooth them down.
It does cheer me up to watch them.
A day or so later, I watched a gull shimmying... I guess she was disturbing the bottom of the shallow pond to find tasty morsels.
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