We live about 70 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. I’ve always thought seagulls were found on the oceans, near land. So they could hang out on the land and ocean, dive for fish, and then hang out on or near land.
But that’s just in the movies. In real life, seagulls live next to fast food restaurants and in parking lots near grocery stores.
Silly me.
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Hahahaha 🙂 You are SOOO right!!!! I grew up in New Bern, NC and spent most of my adult life near Morehead at Cherry Point. Most of our seagulls were in the Sonic parking lot or Carteret Hospital parking lot that was next to Fast food restaurants 😂
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I took the pic the other day when we were driving up to the drive-through at Burger King. I looked to the right and said “there’s my next blog post.”
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I lost count of the number of times we were dive bombed for chips by these damn birds on coastal holiday resorts. They are in abundance here on the marina on the look out for the tiny newly hatched ducklings and moorhen chicks. I don’t like them, and will do what we can to thwart them.
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I just don’t see why hamburger rolls are so enticing to a species that eats fish.
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Good point Barb!
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Can seagulls survive on Whoppers?? Can they get one without onions and pickles?
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It’s crazy. I should actually read up on seagulls because I really thought they only ate fish. In the real seagull world, not in post fast food apocalypse seagull, hamburger eating world, that is.
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And landfills. Lots of them in the landfill here in PA.
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That’s true, too! Don’t they need water??? I realize all of this info is easily obtained…it’s interesting to think about it, though. Like part of their evolutionary process.
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Sure, but they probably get enough from puddles, dew, rain, wet food. They aren’t real fussy animals.
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Yes, but they ARE called seagulls, not raingulls, lol.
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So true. French fry addicted
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Lol. Maybe the salt like from the sea? It’s crazy with the fries and rolls.
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They also thrive in cities that have garbage collection problems. I took a photo of one perched on my car last July right in the center of Rome. You gave me an idea: I might just post it 🙂
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You should!
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But I have to find a way to photoshop the license plate away 🙂
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True. Or edit the photo so you are only showing the top part of the car.
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Except the surroundings prove it’s right in town, and my car’s so cute too 🙂
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We see them on the parking lot at Walmart here. TN is not close to any ocean. I’ve heard them called rats with wings. My kids did used to like throwing bread up in the air and watching them catch it, though.
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This is all so strange to me.
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Yep, and food store carparks are their favourite eateries…
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I grew up by the beach, yet never noticed that. Cool!
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