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  Oh dear, they really shouldn't be fed like this. Bread isn't particularly good for them and they are more than capable of finding their own food via their natural scavenging instincts. It encourages them to fight each other as they compete for scraps and they can sustain serious injuries or worse.
  
  In fact feeding them makes them bold and more prone to become a pest in the parks as their 'fear factor' of humans is removed. I suspect most of us have been menaced at one time or another whilst sitting on a bench, that's because we are just seen as a potential food source rather than a threat.
  
  However, Herring gulls are declining in number and are protected in law. There are half the breeding pairs in the UK than there were twenty years ago, so please no more silly talk of culls just because they can be annoying - this isn't the 1950s. Although we seem to have a high population here, it is localised and by no means reflects the national picture.
  
  Pigeons, on the other hand are a different kettle of fish.

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