Seagull versus Crows

[caerau]

Sitting in war memorial park in Cardiff at lunch time a few weeks back I saw an amusing stand off between two crows and a seagull.  The gull had emerged from a hedge with a dead mouse in its beak.  The crows took interest and started double teaming the gull preventing it from taking off with beak nips on its wings  - the gull retaliated by dropping the mouse and aggressively chasing off the crows in turn - but they just came back as soon as it picked the mouse back up.  This went on for a while until the gull gulped the mouse down in one and VICTORY.  Crows lost interest and walked off.


Today.  Round 2.  Two crows and a gull again (same ones?  who knows) this time it's a crow with some big wobbly food stuff from a bin.  Gull gets interested chases crow into the air in full chase-mode.  Second crow follows, attacks it from above in defense of the other, full claw attack  gull screams and gives up.  Second crow then gets its own wobbly food item from bin and flies off.  Crow VICTORY.


So far 1-1.  Who needs human sport - this is cool 

[Cudzoziemiec]

One all after the replay. Now we need a penalty shoot out avian beak out!

[caerau]

 


Oddly enough I was just there again and I saw another amusing thing not involving crows this time.  I was rather intrigued to see - in a park containing various war memorials, flower beds etc - no ponds whatsoever - two ducks! waddling about and feeding.  At one point a seagull wandered around in the vicinity and as one of the ducks nodded its head forward for a tasty morsel in the general direction of the gull, the gull leaped back like a frightened rabbit.  That's not one for taking on the crows, oh no. 


I really must remember to bring my phone along with me so I can video some of this stuff.


I wonder what on earth the ducks were doing there, I've never seen ducks that far away from water before but I suppose it's possible, they can after all fly.