Not all herring gulls are at the landfill

It’s nice to see a herring gull actually eating a river herring and not a french fry.

A herring gull grabs an alewife in the Narrow River

With an expandable throat, these most common of all the “seagulls” in our area, are quite capable of wolfing down an entire river herring.

herring gull swallows an alewife in one gulp