Oh...just spotted this...do hope you haven't joined in the gull killing, A....it really is bad luck to kill a gull.
I had an odd uncle....well 4 or 5 odd uncles but this one was the oddest. Living by the sea he was well used to gulls and they never bothered him til one day he took a fit of some sort and killed a gull....Aunt C was furious.. ranted on about the ill fortune that would befall the family.
We smiled at their rowing until a couple of weeks later his two youngest boys drowned in the lake above their house.
I would be wary, A.....take care.....x