A young lesser black-backed gull in a lane near the office, July 2011
This time last year I took some pictures of a baby lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus graellsii) on a building site near our office in the city centre.
This time last year the gull chicks were fluffy and new...
But I have been surprised this year that the gulls seem to have nested and bred there much earlier. There are currently two pairs of parents with three young gulls – but I never saw them as babies. I had been looking, too, for months. How sad that I wasn’t there to watch them growing up…
Anyway, they all seem to be doing well, although they are not as “cute” as the chicks were last year.
Parent and child in July 2011
This year's young seagulls on the building site...
To find out about identifying seagulls, please look at last year’s post Recognising seagulls, a beautiful pest
The Squirrelbasket 
A wild flower is a weed when it grows where someone doesn’t want it, somewhere that has been approriated for human exclusive use. A seagull is a pest when it interacts with humans, tempted by all the “rubbish” we discard.
Too true. I think I mentioned in my original seagulls blog post about the “rubbish” aspect. Wheelie bins certainly seem to be one answer at street level – although huge landfill sites are still going to be appealing to gulls.
We do discard so very much…
Best wishes – and you will see I had an answer from SEWBReC on the unidentified bees and have amended that post…
🙂