Dominion of the skies is not really something you think about if you’re ground based, as we humans all are. It might be a phrase we’ve used in relation to the Battle of Britain, or in adverts for commercial airlines, but in these contexts the concept is entirely anthropocentric. Besides, aircraft are too big to relate to as living beings so, really, the rulers of the skies are still the birds. Well, that is, until the invention of small commercially available drones. I saw this one being flown between the piers today, followed closely by a flock of seagulls. Airborne but entirely novel, and small enough for the gulls to relate to, it was evident that they saw this loudly buzzing machine as an insult to their space, and therefore something to be figured out and possible dealt with. How long will it be before they develop a strategy for mobbing these new interlopers, the way they would a hawk?