This is NOT a Super-Bowl commercial

Yee-gads, I look like I’m posing for a "Fun-in-the-San-Diego-Sun!" commercial! I actually started something when I began to have seagulls take food from my hand; 4 other ‘shipmates’ began to mimic me, only to find that feeding gulls, while lotsa fun, can also be very painful when in their feeding frenzy they mistake a finger for food! Or maybe they know exactly what they want to eat!

Lead photograph credited to seancurry1 on Flickr, Konabish ~ Greg Bishop on Flickr when this was first filed. The image file is not in the archive; the credit is kept as it was written.