IT is not just chickens that come home to roost, seagulls do too – and Rachel, Gary and Sarah are safely back where they belong at Watchet Visitor Centre.

The painted wooden seagulls started life as part of a fun seagull trail around the town set up when the centre opened in 2016, but they and their fellows disappeared off the radar after that.

New centre manager Fiona Payne spotted one – Gary – in a shop window while she was out walking in the town last week.

That gave her the idea of declaring an amnesty on the centre’s Facebook page to see how many more would come flocking back.

Rachel turned up the next evening, and Sarah, who it turned out had been at the Visitor Centre all along, crept out of the woodwork.

“We have declared an amnesty. It’s just a bit of fun, and there will be no questions asked if people want to return the seagulls,” she said.

“There’s no trail anymore but we want to use them for something else sometime.

“I asked around and one shop said they thought they had sold their seagull, another had their business cards tucked in a seagull’s beak.”

The Watchet Visitor Centre opened last Friday for the school holidays and new season, and Fiona said it was planned to have new stock in the shop and gradually change so that everything is plastic free.

Meanwhile, Rachel, Gary and Sarah will watch developments with interest.