Seagulls

Mr. Sneaky Pants and The Banana have the hardest time differentiating between seagulls and eagles.  The words really do sound a lot alike, and even though I explain and explain the difference, they just get them mixed up.

It wouldn’t be summer without seagulls.  I know a lot of people don’t like their begging, pestering nature, but I just think they are extremely comical.  I love watching them circling and squaking around a picnic, diving for popcorn near the up and down bridge, fighting off tame geese for crusts of bread at the cemetery, basking on rocks at the rocky beach and paddling along nonchalantly in the water.  Last night I was lazily sitting on a bench at the rocky beach and this seagull started checking out the leftovers from someone else’s picnic.

You have to admit, that even though they’re noisy beggars, they do have some kind of regal, sleek attitude about them.  Maybe it’s all for drama, and really quite fake, but it’s there.