Fun and games among the gulls

River Teifi, Cardigan They plunged into the water to emerge with twigs, which they threw in the air and caught like childrenAbove Pont y Cleifion, tidal reaches of the river Teifi run wide between banks of feathery, blond phragmites. White mist clung to the water as I walked along the southern bank, the sky an unsullied blue. Upriver the sun rose through thinning vapours. Gilded streamers followed the draining tide as it swirled through whirlpools under the bridge. The morning world glistened.
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