Phil K. wrote:
>Do you think that it was planning to make a meal of my budgies, or was
it just curious about the brightly coloured birds inside?

The gull probably figured that your budgies were nestlings of some
species of shorebird and wanted to make a meal of them...

I was just reading an article in North American Birds by Reader's
Digest the other day. That particular book is less scientific about
birds and more into anecdotes about how they behave...

Gulls prey upon nestlings and also greedily devour unattended eggs...

One of the gull articles described how gulls would notice the
disturbance among shorebirds when humans would arrive to collect eggs
in the last century...

When the parent birds were flushed from their nests, the gulls flew
around, breaking as many eggs as possible, since they seemed to know
that humans wouldn't take the broken eggs...

Then, when the egg collectors left, the gulls came back and feasted on
the broken eggs...
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