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Sea gulls don’t eat peppermint. Its a fact. They eat fish. They stay on the sea, they fly over it, they float on the water, and they have white wings, with a black speck, and a black beak too.

They fly quite gorgeously and they like humans.

Yes! That’s what I saw, when I was returning from Alibagh, its a beach village, 45 minutes, by sea, from Bombay.

Because of winter, the sea, was quiet, the breeze was pleasant, and as the boat started, the evening was approaching, and the western sky looked dressed in hues of shades of colours.

There were hoards of sea gulls, started with the boat, the moment the engine started.

It was a right, birds flying with the speed of the boat, just following it. Sometimes flapping their wings, to take a dive into the magnificent sea, but returning again to human contact.

Some passengers threw nuts at them in the air, they caught it in their beak, like cricket players catching the ball, and when they got a peppermint, they threw it back into the sea.

And that is why, sea gulls don’t eat peppermint.

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