Most people would be frustrated to discover they couldn’t park in a perfectly good parking space, but the residents of one Norwegian city are happily giving up a spot for a very special occupant: a seagull named Gunhild. Officials in Sandefjord, Norway, recently placed traffic cones around a parking space outside the Nygård residential community, effectively reserving it for the feathered resident while she incubates her eggs. The story began last year when the seagull chose the same parking spot as her nesting site. When she returned this year, she settled into the exact same location. Before any eggs had been laid, workers removed the nest in hopes of preventing the unusual parking lot arrangement, but Gunhild was determined. The very next day, the nest had been rebuilt and eggs had already been laid. At that point, the decision was easy. The seagull was affectionately named Gunhild after the very first resident to move into Nygård back in 1977. For now, one parking space belongs to a devoted mother doing what mothers everywhere do: keeping her babies safe — and judging by the community's response, nobody seems to mind.
