The featured image is of a herring gull who paraded obstreperously outside our car – only our car – as we waited to board the ferry at Dover. It was elevenses time-ish, but we displayed no evidence of snacking, so I don’t know what it was all about.
These other gulls are, according to Google Lens, yellow-legged gulls, and closely related to the herring gull. These specimens were loitering on the window ledge of the roof top café from which we were enjoying the view in the centre of Barcelona.
Thank you, everybody who identified last week’s creature as an Egyptian Grasshopper. It is good to know what this impressive creature is.
… And for Bird of the Week L
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
Gulls are everywhere, aren’t they? Back into UK routine, Margaret?
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Give us a break girl! We’ve only been back since late Friday, and the washing machine is still going hell for leather. And the wind ……
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I hate to say this, Margaret, but we’re sitting in a bar, beside the sea, preparing to walk the 7 Hanging Valleys tomorrow 🫨 🩷 I’m sorry…
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Don’t worry. I have returned from similar Spanish scenes, so I’ve been weathering my friends’ dismay already.
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🤣🩵
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Nice 🙂
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Nice, even if these gulls aren’t, particularly ? 😉
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Obstreperous fits them well. Our summer soundtrack will doubtless be the keening of juvenile gulls as their parents try to get them to find their own food.
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… usually to be found from a fish and chip or fast food shop nearby. I think they want for very little.
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More in hope than expectation
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‘Twas ever thus …
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Indeed!
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I like most birds but I find it hard to like herring gulls – they throw their weight around far too much!
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And their eyes! So very chilling …
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Yes exactly! I once spent a week working in Plymouth and they stalk the town centre there – some of the biggest gulls I’ve ever seen!
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Big bullies, I’d say …
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I’m sure they decided your car was the only clean(ish) one worth the parade! 🙂
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You really don’t want to see our car Kiki. It’s rarely clean, especially on the outside!
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AND I learned a new word: obstreperously… not that I’d ever need to know a word like that. But it HAS a certain appeal.
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It does. A good word to use when the circumstances are right.
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my favorite image is the gull with the city background.
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I’m quite fond of that one too. Thanks Dawn.
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You know my opinion on gulls. But I do like that city view.
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It was a great coffee stop. Some of the views were even better. But gull-less.
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What an amazing window view. I love the brazenness of a harring gull, I guess these guys are pretty bold too.
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herring gull even 😀
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I like harring gull. It suits these bovva boys very well.
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Ha you’re right
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Hello, Friend to Gulls ; ) I think they were anticipating a snack.
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Yeah. Windows that don’t open (Top floor! Health & Safety!) militate against snack-sharing 😉
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Oh, I was thinking of the ones that landed on your car on the ferry. : )
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Oh, I see. He was just … unsubtle. No chance.
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A gorgeous birds eye view.
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And people-eye too!
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They weren’t in the image so didn’t get a mention.
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Great view of Barcelona and the gull adds interesting perspective!
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Gulls like doing that I think 😉
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That first one is definitely a brute.
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I’ve met these obstreperous herring gulls too often. But the other one, I have to look. It seems to prefer the Mediterranean, so I must have some photos of them from Marseilles or Nice or Izmir.
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It takes a while to realise that they’re not -quite – herring gulls.
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We have also got a lot of seagulls here where we are.
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They get themselves about!
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They do☺️
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I love the gull standing there with the the center of Barcelona background, Margaret! What a wonderful view from the window.
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It’s a great view! Thanks Amy.
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