Another chapter in the story of the Herring Gull chick that fell from the nest and landed on our flat roof…

5th July 2013

It’s almost a month now since the little herring gull chick arrived on the roof and lived to tell the tale. He’s changed a lot since that day (June 8th) and although he’s still got a bit of his baby fluff, he has almost a full set of his juvenile feathers. He’s still fully dependent on his parents for food and he gets regular top-ups, mainly from his mother. Goodness knows where she goes to find his food, although some of it is recognisable as human left-overs (never ours, that would be asking for trouble), more likely chips and chunks of bread. Seems to me a parent Herring Gull has similar problems to the rest of us when it comes to providing a healthy, balanced diet (or not) for their offspring.