Everyone knows gulls, of any description, are opportunistic feeders.
There seems little harm in feeding them with the stale ends of bread, at least not here at the Esplanade.
At Dunedin Botanic Gardens there are notices up beside the duckpond, asking that people feed the ducks grain (which can be had from the Visitor Centre, for free). Bread attracts gulls, who bully the poor ducks who then find it difficult to get enough to eat.
At least it has been kept as a polite suggestion which is adhered to. No-one runs the risk of being fined an enormous sum for feeding gulls, as the Aldeburgh Council in Suffolk threaten.
