Day: May 10, 2023

Post by Wynette: The front of our apartment building faces a fairly busy street but luckily the cars move slowly there. Across the street is a large park and community gathering spot (with occasional loud music concerts, as you may have heard). The side of our building faces a narrow pedestrian street with not much going on except for three good restaurants.

Directly across from our apartment, on the corner of the busy street and the pedestrian street, is an old building that is vacant on the top floor and a bit ramshackle. But on the ground floor of the building is a modern bar with sidewalk tables.

On the roof of this building is an old clay tile roof. We have a good view of it from our living/dining room. We just realized a couple of days ago that a seagull is nesting there. We can’t see the nest, but she hasn’t budged from her spot in several days. And yesterday we saw another seagull swoop in with a large glob of something in its mouth and give it to her. We saw him do this 3 times. So, we assume she is sitting on her eggs and he is feeding her.

I looked up seagull nesting habits on Google and learned they lay their eggs in early May. (This was a UK article but I assume Spanish seagulls are similar?) The eggs hatch in about 3 weeks, so she has a while to go. I also read that seagulls mate for life.