Mexican Standoff

I actually wanted to blip the ruddy turnstones (in breeding plumage) but I liked this picture best. Elsie and Hannah are taking part in a Parkour event this weekend, (something new to all of us), so I had to kill a couple of hours in town. What better way to spend it than shopping in Tesco. After shopping, I wandered over to the Tesco wildlife park to see if I could get a decent picture of basking seals - and decided that this was an oxymoron - basking seals look like big grey spotty bags full of blubber lying on a rock. Not intrinsically endearing. I then spotted the aforementioned ruddy turnstones (great name, isn't it?), practically under my feet, but the squabbling gulls won my heart.

Strictly speaking this isn't a Mexican standoff, which is actually a confrontation among three mutually hostile participants. The first to shoot is at a tactical disadvantage, as if opponent A shoots opponent B, opponent C can shoot A, thus winning the conflict. Since it is the second opponent to shoot that has the advantage, no one wants to go first. (Courtesy of Wikipedia)