Harsh life
We are at Noup Head watching the birds fly by.
![Great Black-Backed Gull - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Westray-The-Hall-of-Einar-32-725x408.jpg)
We get a close pass from a Great Black-Backed Gull. Aren’t they magnificent?
![Great Black-Backed Gull - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Westray-The-Hall-of-Einar-33-725x408.jpg)
A little later one comes back the other way, anti-clockwise or widdershins as they might say here. It has an upside-down chick in its mouth. A chick to feed a chick.
![Great Black-Backed Gull - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GBB-Gull-The-Hall-of-Einar--725x408.jpg)
It’s a harsh life.