Uninvited intruder

[Leslie frank]

Ladt week in Biscay....It was pitch black , drizzly and we were still 100miles to go to reach Gijon. It was about 3am and I was on watch and my two dogs who were snoozing in the cockpit and hogging the blanket. Then out of nowhere a ruddy great sea gull landed in the cockpit, walloped one of the dogs and got stuck with it's wings folded behind the wheel. The dogs went absolutely berserk and I then spent the next 10 minutes chasing the damp thing round the cockpit, trying not to get pecked and trying to keep the now savage dogs at bay. I finally got a pillowcase and dropped it on the birds head. At this point all went strangely quiet. The dogs couldn't now see the bird and it stopped trying to attack me. I picked it up and chucked it over board. Sadly I lost the pillowcase too!
It's the relaxation of a long passage that I like...

 

[[70521]]

That goodness it was not an albatross.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834

 

[newtothis]

Ladt week in Biscay....It was pitch black , drizzly and we were still 100miles to go to reach Gijon. It was about 3am and I was on watch and my two dogs who were snoozing in the cockpit and hogging the blanket. Then out of nowhere a ruddy great sea gull landed in the cockpit, walloped one of the dogs and got stuck with it's wings folded behind the wheel. The dogs went absolutely berserk and I then spent the next 10 minutes chasing the damp thing round the cockpit, trying not to get pecked and trying to keep the now savage dogs at bay. I finally got a pillowcase and dropped it on the birds head. At this point all went strangely quiet. The dogs couldn't now see the bird and it stopped trying to attack me. I picked it up and chucked it over board. Sadly I lost the pillowcase too!
It's the relaxation of a long passage that I like...

Somewhere out on the ocean is a shitehawk sitting on the sea looking silling with a pillowcase on its head. Good.

 

[Roberto]

We fished several sea birds, the silly animals kept on plunging from above to try and catch the plastic squid trailing lure, until they got hooked in their paws or wings. They got quite p..ed off and it wasn t easy to free them, happily I had left some fenders hanging on the pushpit, I pulled the fishing line through them so the birds were beaking the fenders as crazy while I unhooked them on the other side. They seem small when they fly but once near the deck their flapping open wings are rather impressive.