Since the 1980s, tens of thousands of Siberian seagulls have become a special group of guests to my hometown Kunming. They fly all the way from Russia to Kunming every winter to enjoy the city of eternal spring and fly back when their hometown is ready to welcome them home. They've been doing this for more than two decades, but it's still quite unknow how they found Kunming in the first place.
A winter day in 2004, just a few weeks before I was leaving home and heading off to England for the first time, suddenly struck me: I couldn't remember when was the last time I visited these little creatures! I was so used to seeing them coming every year and started to ignore them - It was not the seagulls that I ignored, it was the years that passed by.
Thanks to Yunnan Television of China. I was invited to write a story on the seagulls and also narrate it in an "MTV" in February 2004. Hope you enjoy it.
