It’s that time of year again….

Gulls become very aggressive when they are protecting their chicks.  This one is warning that I’m too close.  The next stage would have been spraying me with guano and then finally dive bombing me with it’s beak.  Needless to say I didn’t wait around for the rest of the show!

A winter feeding station is a great way to to fit a couple of hours of photography into a busy life.  I set my feeders up in late October in front of a small hide made out of old pallets and scraps of wood.  Arranged a few perches and scattered feed around.  Within a couple of weeks the feed had started to disappear as the birds became more familiar with the station.  This particular shot was arranged by attracting the finch using niger seed and waiting for a nice calm sunny morning.