{"id":64873,"date":"2024-09-20T12:31:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T12:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=64873"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:31:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T12:31:42","slug":"the-seagulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/09\/the-seagulls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seagulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birds that have made their home<br \/>\nNear to the sea<br \/>\nAre called gulls and they<br \/>\nPossess a state of wonder<br \/>\nI admire them anyway<br \/>\nIn Brighton on the South coast<br \/>\nEast Sussex one might see<br \/>\nVarious types of Sea gull<br \/>\nWho live there and who be<\/p>\n<p>True to themselves<br \/>\nCommunal they are sharing<br \/>\nOn that they<br \/>\nHave every right to enjoy<br \/>\nTheir lives<br \/>\nAnd so do so everyday<\/p>\n<p>They are intelligent<br \/>\nAnd adaptable<br \/>\nThey can live for twenty years<br \/>\nThey pair up living together<br \/>\nYes they have their fears<br \/>\nBut are altogether protective<br \/>\nOf each other and they will<br \/>\nEat fish and molluscs and eggs and insects<br \/>\nAnd anything we spill<\/p>\n<p>At night they sleep down on the beach<br \/>\nOn calm water sometimes too<br \/>\nOn dunes on sandbars in open spaces<br \/>\nOn the look out  it is true<br \/>\nFor the falcons and Hawks<br \/>\nWho might attack them<br \/>\nThey are wizards in the air<br \/>\nWhere there are humans<br \/>\nGulls will come<br \/>\nThey are really are  aware<\/p>\n<p>They have a rousing aura<br \/>\nTheir rapturous displays<br \/>\nThey share food and it\u2019s whereabouts<br \/>\nWith their raucous ways<br \/>\nSome may call them vermin<br \/>\nBut they are wild birds<br \/>\nAnd they<br \/>\nwith some exhilaration<br \/>\nAre Euphoric I can say<\/p>\n<p>At Brighton lots of people<br \/>\nEat their take aways<br \/>\nOften see the sky borne souls<br \/>\nAttracted there most days<br \/>\nAn easy steal a bag of chips<br \/>\nA cake who knows, they might<br \/>\nSwoop down and take heed of it<br \/>\nBelieving it\u2019s their right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birds that have made their home Near to the sea Are called gulls and they Possess a state of wonder I admire them anyway In Brighton on the South coast East Sussex one might see Various types of Sea gull &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/09\/the-seagulls\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-and-the-environment","category-gulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64874,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64873\/revisions\/64874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}