Yeah, you're right, gulls do head inland when they know a big storm is coming, can you blame em?
75 miles is a walk to the local shops for seagulls though, they will easily travel hundreds of miles in a single day if they have to, but they usually stick close to the best food sources and nesting sites.

I'm bang in the middle of the UK and there's loads of seagulls.

They're scavengers and if there's a rubbish site around there will be hundreds.

There are seagulls inland there must be a tsunami coming, runnnnnn.


Get a grip its a few seagulls.

They are not a sea bird.

Its perfectly normal to see large flocks of these birds inland.

Seen them inland every year at different times.

Don't get too excited, they live in Stoke all year round.

Plenty of seagulls in my city.

Nearest coastline is approx 1,100 km away.

To give you an idea...that is England length wise...twice! (England approx 300mile, 1100km=687.5 miles).

They are birds, they follow food.

I live in the middle of Canada, hundreds of miles from any coast and I see seagulls all over the place

No story here

Seaguls are in many places. Usually around dumps.

Originally posted by RandalFlagg

To my amazement the fields were full of seagulls, purchased on power lines, flying about overhead and making one hell of a lot of noise.

I actually live in Oxford, which is about as central and away from the coast as it gets in the UK, and I have heard SeaGulls a number of times, they are most likely just flying overland to get to the coast........after all birds are pretty smart..........they aren't likely to hug the coastline when they can get somewhere quicker by travelling over land.

So seagulls do fly overland storm or no storm.

Wow...

How'd I get to England?

J/K...

Seagulls are smarter than your average bird...even if they are rats with wings. They'll find food, no matter where it is, and can indeed sense changes in the weather that many other critters can not, including man. They may very well have come inland a bit to escape a coming weather event. It's not unheard of.

I surely do get around...