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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Johann Sebastian Bach" data-source="post: 3191825" data-attributes="member: 73231">In the 1970s, a friend dashed into a bird reserve centre with exciting news: "Med gulls, loads of Med gulls on the scrape", he panted. The half dozen seasoned birders and wardens in the room showed no interest. Med gulls were very rare at the time, so he spluttered the same sentence again, but louder."Did they move much?", came the reply from one of the wardens, as he put the finishing touches to the head of a decoy Black-headed gull.The wooden decoys were being used to entice B-h gulls to breed. They'd run out of brown paint and had reverted to black for the birds' heads.It took a very long time for the teasing to stop.Peter</blockquote>