Although it is a poor reflection on my character, I’ve admitted this before: I just do not trust them. I never met one I liked and I won’t be convinced to give them another chance. I just do not like geese. Gulls, yes. Ducks, of course. Terns and herons, who doesn’t? But those Canada Geese? Never.

So that’s my secret — and you probably hate me for my prejudice — but everyone has some bird they don’t like. Many people do not like gulls. In fact, I know a lot of people who simply dismiss gulls as noisy and unruly nuisances.

While there are 52 species of birds in the gull family, only three kinds are regulars hanging out around Seneca Lake: Ring-billed Gulls (adults grow to be crow-size and have yellow legs), the slightly larger Herring Gulls (pink legs), and the big bruisers on the block, Great Black-backed Gulls with a 5-foot-plus wing-span. (“Speaking of........

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