I live about three miles from a gannet nesting colony, as you say,
impressive birds.

Gulls are hardcore.  Though Smokey says they're tasty...

--Fil

Yeah, they're much larger than pigeons, and equally
indiscriminate in annointing whatever is below them, aren't
they?

I don't like the idea of the cats going after those big birds.  The big
birds often go for the eyes!  Indoor cats don't tangle with gulls.   MLB

Both HRFL Tiger *and* Lily only have one eye. They are both missing the
right eye. That's probably what confused the seagull... they looked at
him oddly!

Helen M

Hahaha cheaters!!

I am still, roughly twenty years later, trying to figure out what my
cats were up to one summer when I would walk into the (carpeted) living
room on a regular basis to find the remnants of a bird (no idea what
kind, it was so devoured), but with all its feathers arranged into a
sun mandala pattern with about a four foot radius.  I could never catch
them red-paweded, though, so to speak.  All the feathers were pointing
outward like rays, looking like the bird had set off a timb bomb in his
own stomache.  Each feather seemed to be carefully arranged and it
looked quite beautiful, in fact.  Been wishing ever since that I had a
camera that year, which I didn't.  They did it several times that
summer, I was a student spending only that summer in that house,  and
they never repeated it when we moved somewhere else.

Well, I'm pretty sure the culprit was only one of my two cats at the
time, she was the birder in the family. She could catch them in
midflight.  She must have been pretty damn proud of herself to go to
all that trouble with her trophy!

--tension