On the farm we’ve been busy sowing next year’s wheat crops. The day that I took this photograph, Derek, who was driving the seed drill tractor, told me he’d had to keep pressing his horn to frighten the gulls because he couldn’t see his mark in the soil.

We’re used to seeing gulls in the fields when we’re ploughing because they like to eat our precious worms. So we can only assume there must be a lot of worms this year!

Soon after I’d left, Derek and Greg, the drill and plough drivers, told me they’d witnessed a cloud of feathers as a gull fell from the sky. The perpetrator was, or least they think it was, a Peregrine Falcon, which began to feast furiously on the unfortunate gull. Peregrine Falcons have been spotted in the area so we think they’re probably right.

Needless to say the remaining gulls seemed to lose their appetites so our wiggly friends gained a stay of execution, at least for a short while.

Rob.