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We live inland, with the sea about 15 miles away at the nearest point. But we have a flock of seagulls that live about 30 yards away. They are incredibly noisy, sporadically from first light. And I've discovered that they are protected, and have been since 1981?!
Why are these noisy, thieving, scavenging b
d creatures given any protection? There's millions of them FFS.
Why are these noisy, thieving, scavenging b
d creatures given any protection? There's millions of them FFS. Gull populations are in decline. And they're native. So yeah they're protected. Their increased interaction with humans is largely because their natural food sources are in decline (including landfill sites!).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gevqv3zxlo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gevqv3zxlo
Hate the bds.
A couple of my neighbours down the street have a different roof configuration, which encouraged these bds to nest. We had one summer of dive-bombing whenever we went outside, I armed myself with a super soaker, and gave them plenty whenever they swooped down.
The neighbours had to shell out to get their roofs "nest-proofed" once the fkers decided to ps off. They've not went far though, I can see on the local facebook pages they've set up in the estate across the road and up the hill, one lady posted images of her bleeding profusely from her head after a successful attack.
To my astonishment, It's filled with responses of "they're only protecting their young", "they'll be gone soon". Rather than "have you considered a flamethrower"?
Sooner or later we're going to have to have an adult a conversation about the protected nature of this vermin.
ds.A couple of my neighbours down the street have a different roof configuration, which encouraged these b
ds to nest. We had one summer of dive-bombing whenever we went outside, I armed myself with a super soaker, and gave them plenty whenever they swooped down.The neighbours had to shell out to get their roofs "nest-proofed" once the f
kers decided to ps off. They've not went far though, I can see on the local facebook pages they've set up in the estate across the road and up the hill, one lady posted images of her bleeding profusely from her head after a successful attack.To my astonishment, It's filled with responses of "they're only protecting their young", "they'll be gone soon". Rather than "have you considered a flamethrower"?
Sooner or later we're going to have to have an adult a conversation about the protected nature of this vermin.
Yep, hateful noisy demons.
The same family of Gulls nesting every year on a nearby roof and the noise they make is off the scale, the current weather means we have no option but to sleep with the windows wide open and the gulls kick off their shrieks between 3 and 4 in the morning.
Pure evil.
The same family of Gulls nesting every year on a nearby roof and the noise they make is off the scale, the current weather means we have no option but to sleep with the windows wide open and the gulls kick off their shrieks between 3 and 4 in the morning.
Pure evil.
I've got around 30 of them living on a factory roof about 20 metres from my house and I can guarantee the bds will watch me clean my car &walk in the house before they start doing a full on cluster bomb run of birdst all over the bonnet and roof. You cant have your windows open on warm nights as the tts are squawking on at 5am.
I got so pissed off with them last weekend that I went full on air to air combat with them and chased them with my FPV drone around their nesting area. Had "radar lock" on a few of them during the dogfight, if only I had some AMRAAM to take them out.
ds will watch me clean my car &walk in the house before they start doing a full on cluster bomb run of birdst all over the bonnet and roof. You cant have your windows open on warm nights as the tts are squawking on at 5am.I got so pissed off with them last weekend that I went full on air to air combat with them and chased them with my FPV drone around their nesting area. Had "radar lock" on a few of them during the dogfight, if only I had some AMRAAM to take them out.
They are a bloody nuisance and what you absolutely do not want is some local idiot feeding them.
They will return to a nesting site year after year and you may not interfere with the nest during the season. If you're unlucky enough to have some nesting nearby they are incredibly aggressive to the extent it may be impossible to use your garden without being attacked.
Once they've buggered off you can remove the nest and make it impossible for them to return. Spikes work best, placed in a way that makes it impossible for them to land. Sonic devices and model owls are a waste of time.
They will return to a nesting site year after year and you may not interfere with the nest during the season. If you're unlucky enough to have some nesting nearby they are incredibly aggressive to the extent it may be impossible to use your garden without being attacked.
Once they've buggered off you can remove the nest and make it impossible for them to return. Spikes work best, placed in a way that makes it impossible for them to land. Sonic devices and model owls are a waste of time.
Edited by Unreal on Thursday 16th July 11:12
Sheets Tabuer said:
I live just about as far inland as you can and we have them here, on a scale of noisy annoying bds they are right up there with the fat fighty sex crazed wood pigeons.
+1ds they are right up there with the fat fighty sex crazed wood pigeons.Have them in Worcs, WTF are they doing this far from the sea FFS!
Talking of wood pigeons, a couple of years ago there was what I assumed was a female on the law and I assume about 5 males vying for her attention, I think she had been gang raped as she was utterly exhausted and couldn't even take off, flapping around like it had a broken wing. I thought I was gong have to dispose of the body but I came back a few hours later and they had all disappeared. Noisy b
ds though.We live near the sea and have load of European Herring Gulls around. Noisy buggers and likewise rip bins to shreds and scatter stuff everywhere.
A house over the road had some nesting on thier flat roof that could see from our office, they had 2 chicks but something got them while they were still quite small.
What really pisses me off though is the idiots that feed them, there's enough of a problem with them grabbing food from people (they love the local out door fish and chip place) without idiot tourists training them expect food from people.
A house over the road had some nesting on thier flat roof that could see from our office, they had 2 chicks but something got them while they were still quite small.
What really pisses me off though is the idiots that feed them, there's enough of a problem with them grabbing food from people (they love the local out door fish and chip place) without idiot tourists training them expect food from people.
Mr E said:
Pitre said:
Why are these noisy, thieving, scavenging bd creatures given any protection? There's millions of them FFS.
Humans? You re right, 6 billion of them and climbing. d creatures given any protection? There's millions of them FFS. t on other animals possessions, or pinch their food while they're eating it, or scream at them at ungodly hours of the early morning, or attack them with intent (and hate those trophy hunters that do). So, I appreciate you're being a bit facetious but I would be completely happy if these unsociable bd birds died out tomorrow. As others have said there is actually no such thing as a "Seagull" and they are not sea-birds in-spite of having webbed feet.
There are Herring gulls, Black-backed gulls, Kittiwakes among others.
That is not to argue about them being a hateful creature.
Once rented a small cottage for a week in "old" St Ives in Cornwall, which we made the mistake of doing in "fledging season" or whatever it is called.
Every roof had a nest, every nest had fledgelings, and apparently their feeding cycle is something like sleep for 20 min, then squawk until fed, then sleep for 20 min etc.
When there are multiples on every roof the noise is just never ending.
There are Herring gulls, Black-backed gulls, Kittiwakes among others.
That is not to argue about them being a hateful creature.
Once rented a small cottage for a week in "old" St Ives in Cornwall, which we made the mistake of doing in "fledging season" or whatever it is called.
Every roof had a nest, every nest had fledgelings, and apparently their feeding cycle is something like sleep for 20 min, then squawk until fed, then sleep for 20 min etc.
When there are multiples on every roof the noise is just never ending.
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