Dead Gulls!!

There is always the odd gull casualty on the patch.  With the numbers that visit, it is inevitable that a few of them will be ailing and some then die.  The carcasses don't tend to last too long, as Red Kites are quick to take an easy meal.  There was a rather sick looking BHG a week or two ago, which eventually perished and became a Kite meal - the pile of feathers on the spit are all that is left.

I noticed a dead BHG on the east bank a week or 2 ago and a dead Coot on the NE bank.  Today, another BHG was looking rather forlorn as it floated about on the southern side of the lake, whilst on the west side I found a very fresh looking corpse of an adult LBBG.  I always begin to worry when I see what seems like an increase in casualties, plus the location of today's LBBG in the hedge line between two paths on the west side seemed a bit odd.  I couldn't see any signs of gun shot wounds, but that it always my concern.