Gulliver's Travels

Rags to Riches, Bins to Beaches

Consider the bird. Found in a bin. Fighting for life.

A gull (though not the gull in question). Edinburgh, May 2025.

Last May, lured like a lobster to a pot, a lesser black-backed gull was trapped in a bin in Paisley, Renfrewshire. Gull-haters might see this as a fitting, karmic end for a rat with wings. Live by the trash, die by the trash. But, pigeons, …