Let's face it - when it comes to aesthetic beauty, acoustic serenity, or any other appealing quality starting with A, Herring Gulls are pretty much bottom of the heap. Anyone who has to suffer winters looking at masses of inland gulls will surely agree that eliminating all of them from the view would be a great benefit. They are mean-looking and aggressive bastards. Not sure what the collective noun is, probably a 'Hard of Herring'.
Having said all that, once you get away from inland reservoirs, playfields and rubbish tips and into coastal towns, it is the cries of Herring Gulls that really make you feel you are at the British seaside. This is where Herring Gulls should be - scavaging the harbour and tideline for bycatch (not the prom for chips). Here's a selection - a few more on Flickr.
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