Early yesterday morning I was watching this black-headed Gull wading in the shallow water margins of Ryan's field when it locked its beak on to a small Eel right on the waters edge,
The Eel was very lively and put up one hell of a fight for survival as the gull tried to line it up head first to swallow it.
The Eel managed to escape a couple of times only to be re-caught and when the gull first managed to swallow around two thirds of the Eels writhing head and body it still managed to wriggle back out.
The battle continued until the gull took a mighty gulp and finally swallowed the whole Eel complete.
The Gull looked quite pleased with itself but I can think of many far better ways to start the day than having a lively Eel wriggling around inside my Tummy !!
