Fox of the Sea

Gulls are highly adaptable feeders that opportunistically take a wide range of prey. They will happily consume fish, marine and freshwater invertebrates, both alive and already dead, terrestrial arthropods and invertebrates such as insects and earthworms, rodents, eggs, carrion, offal, reptiles, amphibians, plant items such as seeds and fruit, human refuse, and even other birds.

Chips are an especial favourite and they are often to be seen on beach esplanades up and down the shire patiently waiting until the chip bags and wrappers are binned in overflowing receptacles ready for the pecking.

This gull however is of a quite different class indeed. It frequents the bins of a local seafood restaurant just at the harbour mouth. Its diet includes leftover prawn, crab and lobster. When in season of course.