I live in Central IL. So I don't call our birds sea gulls, to me they are either "river" or "lot" (as in parking lots LOL) gulls.
I know lots of folks don't like them, but I do. Of course I'm not around them all the time either
I have a Sony cyber shot H50 with the telephoto lens. All of the birds I have posted other than the sea gull (ooops I mean river gull!) I took from inside my house. I cheat, I have feeders right out in front of my windows :grinno: