How Terribly Disrespectful!

I do like Gulls, they remind me of my roots on the North Sea coast and Marsden Rock, which is a nature reserve for many birds including Gulls, Kittiwakes, Cormorants and Fulmars,
However, they do make a mess and this blip shows a very cheeky Gull perched on the head of a statue commemorating the first Allied jet aircraft, the Gloster Whittle E29/39,  which first flew from the Gloster Aircraft Company airfield in Brockworth, Gloucester, in 1941. The next development was the famous Gloster Meteor which flew towards the end of WWII and used to be able to catch up with the V1 rocket bombs and make them crash by flying close which disrupted the airflow and tipped a wing over. They also shot them down with their cannons.
(see extra photo of a Meteor, the other extra is me with Al Murray who visited the Jet Age Museum. He is incredibly knowledgeable about WWII, battlefields etc. but I spent 3/4 hour with him in the Avro Vulcan XM569 cockpit with which he was very impressed)

From 'historyofwar.org' Gloster Meteor During The Second World War.
No.616 Squadron had received its first aircraft on 12 July 1944 at Culmhead in Somerset. It then moved to Manston, where its pilots gained experience with the new jet. By the end of the first week more than thirty of the squadron’s pilots had converted to the new jet fighter.
At this point the RAF was not willing to deploy the Meteor over occupied Europe, feeling that the Meteor I was not sufficiently impressive to risk against the Luftwaffe. Instead it was decided to use the high low altitude speed of the Meteor against the V-1 Flying Bomb. The first interception was made on 27 July 1944, when Squadron Leader Watts caught up with a V-1 over Ashford, but on this occasion his cannon jammed.
The squadron’s first success came on 4 August 1944. This time the Meteors were operating in pairs, in case of further problems with the cannon, but once again the cannons failed. The first interception was made by Pilot Officer Dean. After his cannon failed, he used the “tip and run” tactic to destroy the V-1. This involved bringing the wingtip of the Meteor close to the wingtip of the V-1. Air pressure then knocked the V-1 off course which disrupted the gyroscope based auto pilot, sending the V-1 crashing to the ground. A few minutes later Flying Officer Roger destroyed a second V-1, this time with his fully functioning cannons. The Meteors of No.616 squadron eventually claimed thirteen V-1's.