Subject: [Tweeters] A gull that bit off more than he could
Date: Oct 6 14:24:41 2006
From: monte merrick - montemerrick at speakeasy.net


i havent seen anything quite so gruesome as a choking death, but it
does remind me an immature gull i once saw at myrtle edwards park in
seattle who was trying to swallow a crab when he noticed i had a
croissant. foolish youth - he dropped his large ,although manageable,
crab and started begging for french pastry. of course i refused his
demands and the crab made tracks toward the sound - a local crow saw
the whole thing and flew down to try to get the crab but he needed help
with that kind of prey and called for reinforcements, but in vain. crab
got away. crow was mad, a nd gull went hungry ( ah these urbanistas -
what the city drives us to do - flee them, i say - no one who has seen
gulls raise their babies and on sea stack ever calls them rats with
wings)




monte merrick
lummi island washington
montemerrick at speakeasy.net