Half Full by Maria Scrivan for July 25, 2022

You go, gull!

…and strong

They’ve got a lotta gull!

Book ’im Danno. Throw him in the cooler!

And they’ve started growing chest hair.

Though the term is widely accepted, technically there is no such thing as a sea gull [or seagull]. They are gulls. There are over 40 varieties of them and, being very hearty and resourceful, they occupy virtually every habitat on the planet.

A sea gull pooped on my head a few years ago, and I kind of took it personally. Maybe I was right. They have a tremendous splatter pattern. I thought it was raining at first.

The boldest beach animals I ever encountered were raccoons. In the middle of the day, they’d try to raid your backpack. They did not scare easily.

Rats with wings.

One gull snatched my tuna fish sandwich from my hand. He dropped it on the sand, then other gulls made short work of it. Served him right. (Did he have his gull bladder removed?)

like the bears in Yosemite who have learned how to untie the haul ropes we use to store food in trees.

This seagull has hair on its chest.

Is ’gotten’even a proper word?