Many of the seaside towns and villages around the British Isles have signs that say "Please do not feed the gulls". This is sound advice: herring gulls (Larus argentatus) in particular, but also lesser black-backed gulls, will happily finish off most of the items of food that reckless tourists offer them. And it's probably this deliberate ignoring of the signs that has turned these gulls into brazen thieves that will snatch food from the hands of unsuspecting. We saw some of this going on during a recent visit to the south coast, though none that I could photograph. Instead, I took this shot of a placid herring gull against a sympathetically coloured background.
photo © T. Boughen Camera: Nikon Z 5
