A Gyre of Gulls

Wild West Yorkshire nature diary, Friday 19th February 1999
gullsFIFTY TO A HUNDRED GULLS circle anti-clockwise in a spiral fifty yards across to gain height over the city suburb as the sun starts to set.

long . .. . tailed . .. . titMore Long-tailed Tits at the bird feeder; three today. But we have seen no Greenfinches this year.

A day Wakefield's local studies library; I learn, amongst other things, that, until 1926 at least, there were pheasants, rabbits and hares in the city's parks. A print of 1722 shows the hunting of the hare in progress with two men on horseback and a pack of hounds pursuing the unfortunate animal.

Claude cloudA cloud modelled like a classical painting and tinted golden pink by the setting sun hangs over the old railway viaduct, bringing a hint of Claude Lorraine to this industrial monument.

Richard Bell,
wildlife illustrator
E-mail;'richard@daelnet.co.uk'



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