Simon's Blog - Seagulls

They're as much a part of our seaside towns as ice creams and piers but today in Parliament they've been discussed as some people think they can be a bit of a nuisance.

Yes it's the gulls that are often referred to as seagulls and ministers are being urged to take action to protect our seaside areas from them.

Often criticised for their droppings, nests and noise but also for being aggressive especially during the breeding season.

However they can look good in photos and here just a few that have turned up in my meridianweather@itv.com inbox.

In what could have been a scene from The Birds, Sid Saunders took this photo I took on Hastings beach of a local fisherman being attacked while cleaning out a fish box in the sea.

Here’s another feeding frenzy from Eileen Bacon in Littlehampton.

She said that they were all after just on one slice of bread!

Sue Spencer got in touch on Facebook to say “I love them and have a pet one who has visited every year for 12 years between March and October. He is part of the family who eats with my cats and sits on our laps”

And here's the proof.

Jolie Williams took this in Bournemouth of the beautiful combination of blue skies and stormy clouds plus a photo bombing gull.

And here's a glorious sunrise with a perfectly placed gull from Alan Barber from Bognor Regis.

And finally, it’s a question we’ve asked many times before, can birds read?

Well not this one spotted by Ian Clark in Sholing.

Unless of course it’s just no good with signs.

Is that no waiting or no parking? Either way...it shouldn’t be there!!