Country Life
BY IAN NIALL THE greediness of birds often threatens to be their undoing, and gulls in particular are prone to gorging themselves whenever they get the chance. At the weekend I watched a gull walk- ing on ground where someone had thrown the entrails of a fowl or some small animal. The gull quickly discovered the feast and gobbled down the first instalment just as a frisky small dog discovered the gull and 'Teed towards it. Desperately the gull gulped down more of the intestine, and the dog, which seemed to have been about to press home its attack, veered at the last minute. The gull flapped its wings but was compelled to continue feeding, and again gulped and swallowed frantically. The dog barked and darted in once more. The gull tried to rise, and at the last minute, when the dog was almost upon it, the long meal came to an end and the bird flew off.
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