ROTTEN LITTLE SCOUNDRELS

This is a shot from a recent holiday, I can't always use my grown up camera on a daily basis for BLIP, I have enough trouble getting a shot via my Iphone, I believe I have a fab library of photographs from life in 2013 and so I need to try and show them.
This was taken in PORT ISAAC, yes, where Doc Martin is filmed, I had a 'me' week where I left the boys and husband at home and I toured Cornwall - I had never been, I like touring, the male species of my family either don't or couldn't owing to commitments. Anyway back to the explanation of this shot.
At first I honestly could not work it out, outside most of the small cornish cottages in the village there was a stainless steel pipe - it had a picture of a bird with a cross through it. No idea what it was until I came across this little scoundrel. These seagulls cause all of the seaside towns a lot of problems, the main one being attacking the rubbish bags, tearing them, meaning the rubbish ends up strewn across the pavement/road. Port Isaac and I am sure many other Cornish parish councils provide a 'protection' cover - these are kept tidily in these stainless steel tubes and when the rubbish is put out for collection the cover is put over the rubbish bags and because its 'seagull' proof the bags stay intact, the village stays tidy and all is well. I wonder where this hotels 'protection' was!!! cheeky, little scoundrel