Ingrid Bauer/J-C Catry wrote: > > >Gull eggs are a good seasonal snack too and the adults are not over > >protective parents so hatchlings are another easy prey. > > when is the season in scotland , where do they choose to put their nests? The particular place we went to collect the eggs was a little uninhabited island - Craro {sp?] and another one i can't remember the official name of nearby [Ghost island was the name i heard it called most often since it would loom out of the fog]. It was good for collecting since the rocks were not high cliffs or similar . It was swimable and generally pretty calm [even at easter] but we always went by rowing boat. I would guess that the season varies across Scotland since the country has the Gulf Stream on the western side and this certainly has the effect of bringing unusual fish in and allowing exotic plants to be grown outside. Birds remain all year round that would ordinarily only visit etc. I couldn't say exactly since at the time I was just told how and where to collect but it could have been durimg easter holidays rather than early summer] I think the gulls were common gulls if that helps. It may well be illegal to take gull eggs now btw - I'm not sure of their status but it is not illegal to posess eggs or feathers of protected birds even if they were killed by accident. [The hatchling thing was a postulation about food collecting for earlier peoples based on history, not my personal experience] Alison