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Around 40 days ago, Beth (who I work with) noticed a baby seagull behind the building we work in. After some Googling we decided that he was probably only a few days old, and would apparently take around 40 days to learn to fly. We didn't want to touch him, especially as his parents were still around. There was no way of climbing the walls either side of him, and we didn't want to put him in the wrong nest as apparently the adult seagulls would attack him. It was raining heavily that day so we put a box down in case he wanted some shelter, and called him Kevin.

Long story short (not that short)... Kevin sat himself in the box and ended up living there for the next 40-ish days. Everything we read said that baby seagulls need tonnes of food. The adult seagulls were struggling to get down to him, so we left him some food out each day to make sure he'd get big and strong enough to fly away. He still called for his parents each day and they seemed to come down when they could. He had his "car dodge training" out in the car park, learnt to scare cats away, and started to find his own food eventually.

I decided to film his progress each day, and last week he looked like he was trying to fly. He hasn't been around for a few days now, so it looks like he's learnt to fly and has joined his seagull pals up in the sky. There was nothing suspicious by his box or on the road to make us think otherwise.

Earlier today, we heard that familiar whistle, and saw a baby seagull on the roof opposite. There's no way of knowing, of course, but I'm pretty sure it was him.