Laughing Gulls were everywhere in Grand Isle, LA week before last, especially on the docks. The laughing call of these gulls is a familiar sound around the Gulf of Mexico. They may be named after their laughing call but the gull on the piling is not laughing as another gull, in breeding plumage, tries to descend onto the same piling. The one gull stood firm and the gull in the air kept going, landing on the next piling down.