Nothing to do with declining fish stocks, I think many Herring Gulls have never been fishing, especially when people like the one mentioned in the post above feed them.
All these gulls do is nest on a roof, fly down eat in gardens, tear open bins and pick up dropped take away food, they don't...
Flying around squaking at 4AM is not acceptable, I wish the noisy b@stards would disappear back to the sea.
I wouldn't harm one though.
Not sure why they are called Herring gulls, I don't think many of them have actually been fishing.
Scavaging around the bins in KFC car park gulls is a bit...