Sunday 15 May 2016

More Gull-Watching...

Now that I work locally, I have the opportunity to spend an occasional afternoon sitting by the beach. It's not, in my opinion, warm enough to go paddling just yet (though we did have a few warm days at the beginning of May) but I do enjoy driving down to a little point near home where I can park the car and watch the waves as they hit the sea wall.

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The other afternoon I decided to get myself a KFC takeaway, and eat it in the car. The last time I was gull-watching, I had brought some bread as "bait" - but not just any old stale stuff. It was brioche. Nevertheless, the gulls were not impressed with my offering, and ignored the scraps I threw in their direction. I had to crop my photos to zoom in on the birds.

This time I threw out a few chips...

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One chap (I assume it was a chap) obviously thought the chips should be his... he spent a lot of time squawking and chasing other gulls away... meanwhile a few opportunists were sneaking in behind him and hoovering up the chips.

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The gulls of Margate are obviously much more choosy than the ones in Cornwall (the PM was answering questions about the gull-menace in Cornwall last Summer!) I'm not sure if that's because they are a more discerning class of gull or if they are just better-fed.

More photos HERE...

2 comments:

Elizabeth said...

I love the cry of seagulls, they used to wake me up when I was on holiday with my parents and sister in Llandudno as a child, I thought I was in heaven. we once saw one trying to eat a banana; it had bitten off more than it could swallow I think.

1569 Rising said...

I very often park beside the sea at St Mary's Island, Whitley Bay, with fish and chips. Sitting in the car, beside a notice requesting people not to "feed the birds", I am soon surrounded by gulls, waiting for the magic moment when I wind the window down, and cast my surplus chips onto the tarmac. Within seconds, all the chips are gone, and I feel I have done my bit to "Feed my lambs, feed my gulls."

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