Well the chicks are now enormous, and ready to fly off any day. They have taken to hopping from roof to roof, and sit on the apex stretching their wings and making loud bizarre squeaking noises. The adults are still in protective mode, but don't seem to be attacking up quite so diligently. Today I watched 5 adults trying to see off a flock of swallows which are nesting in our barn. This had very little effect. There's not much a big clumsy seagull can do in pursuit of a nippy elegant wee swallow, which can fly at top speed towards the tiny broken pane of glass in the barn window and swoop straight inside without even slowing down.
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