Often visiting seaside gardens for meat scraps, the herring gull can be a noisy visitor with its screeching call and it is rarely on its own. Will often gather on rooftops on the lookout for easy pickings.
Nest:- Will nest on cliffs and ledges. Will even nest on window ledges, chimneys and rooftops.
Feeding:- Fish, shrimps, prawns and crabs, small mammals and birds. Often feeds on rubbish dumbs and scraps, especially meat and fish, from the garden.
Noisy gulls feeding on a lawn in Cornwall
Juvenile
Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus)
Length 38 cm
Although a seabird, like the Herring Gull the Black-headed gull has become an urban scavenger often nesting in towns and feeding at rubbish tips and sewage farms.
Nest:- In colonies, a simple nest of grass, usually on the ground.
Feeding:- Mainly on the ground on insects and worms, also scavenge on waste dumps. Will visit gardens for scraps.
