This isn't a comment about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, but herring gulls eat anything they can swallow and shit all over the place. Doesn't mean they spread viruses to humans but it does make a chap wonder how porous modern societies must be when it comes to contact with viruses.
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Gulls seem to occupy the same role that rats used to. Hanging around, adapting to our lives, sometimes outraging us by overstepping the mark, and giving rise to folk tales.
You're never more than six feet away from a herring gull.
Sam - it often surprises me how many herring gulls we see this far inland yet presumably they find plenty to eat.
A while ago I had little else to do other than sit in the bay window staring out at life going by. I live in Hertfordshire, yet every morning a series of birds shaped like the letter M flew north. In the evening the Ws flew back. I assume they commuted to a waste dump or some other source of food from their roost.
Andy - we see large number of black-headed gulls on the river in Bakewell, particularly on a nice day when there is food to be had from tourists. At quieter times there may only be a few gulls.
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