Upton Warren Avocets…
(A visit in June 2017…)
There was unrest, there was palpable tension.
A cacophony of raucous squabbles wailed
From tetchy breeding black-headed gulls,
At which nesting avocets regularly regaled.
Large, ungainly grey-brown gull chicks
Were from skittering coots protected,
But the wading avocet offspring were vulnerable,
As their parents screamed and harsh gulls were rejected…
There was tension and clamour, there was critical unrest,
With curlews, godwits, little ringed plovers and more,
As irritated and alert avocet adults opened their wings
To ward off scavengers in a Flashes breeding war…
Pete Ray
Such a noise…
Lovely avocet chicks waded, as black-headed gull chicks stood large and screeching for food.
The avocets were keen, feisty and protective, often rising to ward off random gulls.
One gull rushed at a feeding coot…
Remarkable at Upton Warren’s salt water Flashes…
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