I URGE people not to feed the pigeons and seagulls at Mayflower Park, Southampton.

I watched in horror, as did many others, at the rat infested sea wall.

Without fear, rats run up the wall onto the promenade, to feed on food left for the birds, then return to their nest on the sea wall.

They run among the birds to get the food with people only feet away from them. With the boat show days away, this is not good, nor with the children playing in the area too.

BERNARD FINCH, Bishopstoke.