WELL the silly season is well and truly upon us once again and it’s not even August yet.

As the schools break up for another extended summer holiday, beware your little treasures don’t get carried away by marauding vicious psycho gulls.

According to reports in the local and national press, seagulls are once again public enemy number one. Not just any ordinary gulls but shrieking vicious psychopaths who’ll have your arm off for a bite of your pasty.

For the last few years it has been the great white shark that was going to chew all our extremities off but, lo and behold, no one has been attacked by a killer shark off the Cornish coast so that story began to look a bit stale.

No, now it’s the seagull that’s the target of tabloid overkill.

When they are not pecking old ladies on the head they are killing poor little dogs who never did them any harm.

But, hang on a minute, we have to look at why the gulls have evolved into pasty poachers and sausage roll stealers.

It’s us that’s to blame, not the gull. We encouraged them inland with our massive landfill dumps. Easy pickings for a hungry gull.

We dump our litter and fast food in the streets for the gull to swoop down and devour. Once they got a taste of that then it was a short step to actually taking the food out of people’s hands.

Of course gulls want to be near their new food source when it comes to raising their young. And of course ripping open the black bin bags full of food to feed their chicks is much more preferable than flying out to sea from cliff side nests.

So before we get all hysterical and demanding a cull, remember if we change our habits then the gull might just do to.