Across Dunbar and beyond, this year’s gull chicks are beginning to make themselves known. If you’ve spotted one of these wonderfully fluffy youngsters peering over a rooftop, perched on a chimney or calling from a…
Category: Updates
For a number of years I have observed herring gulls nesting
in Dunbar. On this site you can add a new nest site. If you can see an existing nest site and want to update it, contact me. I’ve update the form for 2025 observations If…
Something’s up – nesting in urban and inland nest sites compared to traditional natural habitats
The figures from JNCC are alarming. Gull numbers are down again, but urban ones are up – dash, no chance of some peace this summer then? Who knows what today’s schoolboys know, but maybe we…
All Change (in 2025)
Urban gulls shift the timing of foraging behaviour based on human activities, so when food resources become locally abundant, these resourcefull feathered beasts fly and feed
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Gull Watch 2023 and 2024
In 2023 I recorded gull nests in the locality. Gull nests are easier to see from a good vantage point or from a height. The counts show a concentration around where I live – as…
What is the estimated nesting gull population in East Lothian?
Several years back (May 2020) this is the reply I got from ELC, which was classified as an Freedom of Information request, so I had to pay £17.50. The information would have taken almost no…