Nature's Gleaners

By parked cars where people are eating in on beach car parks them one often does see
Where over scraps of food thrown to them they squabble noisily
Silver gulls are blue and grey foreshore scavengers to coastal people well known
Though they are also well capable of finding food on their own
In large flocks coastal people see them every day
Birds who are familiar to many of them one can say
In rubbish tips in large numbers they do abound
They are Nature's gleaners where discarded food is to be found
On islands on ground nest the females three to four brown freckled bluish eggs lay
Where from their breeding territories the males and females chase aerial predators away
Perhaps the most populated saltwater birds Australia wide
And that they are Nature's survivors of them cannot be denied
People living in coastal towns see them every day
And they are not in danger of extinction in any sort of a way.