Is there any chance that whoever is responsible for the bins in Rye (the town council? the district council?) would consider replacing the bin next to Knoops hot chocolate shop by the Landgate with something a little less bird friendly? As I walked past on Saturday, a clever gull liberated a discarded ice cream waffle cone from the open topped bin. She immediately attracted a lot of smaller brown headed admirers who begged to share to the treat. An unlucky pigeon came late to the party and retrieved what looked like a dog poo bag from the bin. He did not make any friends.
What you can't see in the picture is the pile of discarded drinks containers, left a couple of feet from the bin. As usual, animals and birds are relatively clean and tidy compared with their human underlings.
Photo: Seana Lanigan
