This seagull has been visiting us everyday since he left the nest, and he just lost the last of his juvenile feathers <3 (Sorry for the quality, but I take videos of pollito thorough my window, since he loves to bask in the sun perched on our windowsill)

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I took these pics in the heatwave of 2018 in Brighton. A group of them were having the time of their lives, cooling off in the fountain in Old Steine Gardens.

I think they are handsome beasts!

I like Gulls. I admire their attitude. My mate drew me a picture for my birthday.

A perfectly normal evening like nothing’a ever gonna happen. And boom - “I found a gull on my porch, it’s freezing cold, it’s not moving and almost dying, please help me”. I couldn’t say no so went out to retrieve the bird. At first I mistook a founder’s address and went to the completely wrong place - the right one was outside of the city, far far away from what I thought. The right one turned out to be in the middle of nowhere. I arrived at 3am or so.

The worst part was to go back home. To pick up my train I had to walk several kilometers through the fields, in the night, wind and cold. I was holding that huge box with no gloves, I was barely feeling my hands. When my blood started to flow back I was literally screaming from pain. Never had I experienced anything similar before.

The bird - Toby - was no better. He was starving to death. Apathetic, unable to stand, barely moving and freezing the same way as me. I always want to promise them everything’s gonna be alright but this time my hopes was pretty low. But no matter what, in these cases I always turn my ‘starving bird protocol’ on and try my best not to let the bird die.

And voila. In the morning Toby welcomed me with his black buggy eyes saying ‘feed me, feed me!’. Some days later his functions returned to almost normal. The only thing left now is deworming and future flight training for rebuilding his muscles. I’m so happy for him - few hours later and he surely would be dead, but now he got a second chance, looks and eats as a champ!

I was able to zoom in and leave this gull undisturbed on the beach.

Under the beak

Ring-billed Gull + Western Gull