Well now I ve got a dilemma

Well done Bluebelle! So relieved that there was a happy ending

How lovely of you to rescue him. I’m crossing my fingers he makes it to adulthood safely.

This was a captivating story Bluebelle and would make a lovely story for children to read. Thank you for cheering us up on a dreary morning in Torquay. You did all the right things for the poor creature but I think I would have slept in a different room!
Seagulls here are becoming increasingly daring here in their quest for food as lockdown has meant no outdoor cafés to raid or discarded chips to devour. One of my friends has had to cope more than once with one in her house, attracted by the cat's food. It caused damage to her wood floor which required professional attention.
There is a nest on the house next door to me and the birds regularly leave their “calling card” on my car as it’s parked directly under their flight path! Overall, its a minor inconvenience (pardon the pun!) and I do love living here.

I meant to add that the photo in my last post was captured at sunrise in 2018 when it was the Summer Solstice - my only photo that includes a seagull!

Reminds me of time when a racing pigeon sat on my terrace refusing to budge. I placed it on a high ledge with some water in a saucer . In the meantime, I left a message using the tel nr which was on a ring on the bird’s leg . Next day, when the owner arrived, we found that the poor pigeon had died. The guy flew into a rage at me because he’d had to travel all of 40 minutes for nothing! I was obliged to slam my door shut to avoid getting hit. That was my thanks!

I love your pics. I once reared to maturity a starling chick that fell down my chimney but it was a great effort. I expect a lot of baby birds probably don’t make it. It is nature’s way. But good luck to Sebastian. He is cute.

What a hero you are. Hope Sebastian soon learns that he is a bird, and his parents teach him everything he needs to grow up. Well done you.

I've a fine kind of chicken wire over my chimneys. Does the trick perfectly.

I'm glad you helped the baby gull, but I can tell you that they are a total pain in the neck when you have to live with too many of them as we do here in Torquay.

I’m so pleased to see this has a happy ending, Bluebell. Well done you - it’s heartwarming. ❤️

callistamon Sand others suggesting covering the chimney I live in a three storey Victorian house I have to hire scaffolding for any simple roof procedure so unfortunately I can’t afford to have anything done to the chimney as much as understand your advice
I do live with many phloem I live right by the sea Seagulls herring gulls black backed gulls herring gulls and kittiwakesxi love them all, when I hear them I know I m home
They are only a nuisance because humans have made them so if If we didn’t eat in the street and chuck our packaging down they wouldn’t pinch our grub ?
They were here before us but we have pinched their fish they use to follow the trawlers and little shrimpers all day but now they have to come inland to feed, like everything else on earth we spoil it, then blame the animals
They are a majestic bird always so white and clean looking Some are huge and quite scary Kittiwakes are an endangered species although we seem to have loads

Some lovely stories on here thank you for all contributing

Ah, I see the problem and, of course, scaffolding has to be hired for any job like that now.
We had ours done many years ago after the same starling (I'm sure it was the same one) fell down the chimney several times, frightening my dear mother as she wasn't able to move very much.

Aw he really is very cute. im glad you were able to rescue him BlueBelle, and so pleased his mums come back for him.im sure he will be ok now.Keep us posted on how he gets on please.Well done you.

Yes it does look like his mums telling him off - and a "i told you not to go wandering off!" as well i shouldnt wonder

BlueBelle, what a lovely lady you are and what a lucky baby seagull, if you have to fall down a chimney let it be a kind lady in the bedroom.
I do love watching the seagulls soar, truly majestic. I agree we are the ones at fault as far as nature goes.

Lovely cheerful story BlueBelle and great photos. Good to hear of other GN with their rescue stories. How kind you all are.

Reminds me of the young bat that came down our chimney. He was dehydrated and weak, so I used a dropper to give him water and fed him on meal worms. We rang the bats protection people, thinking that they’d come and collect him but they said I could just carry looking after him. Had him for three days and called him Barty. We let him go at dusk and away he flew.
Gives you a good feeling when you help an animal in distress.
The bats still live in our chimney in the summer!

I'm glad you saved him as seagulls are now protected species.

People aren't allowed to disturb nests unless they have a licence.

A lovely happy ending! I needed it! ?

“One night my husband woke to find a frog on his pillow & a very proud cat sitting watching”

Craftycat Did you kiss the frog and see it turn back into your husband

glamma at least the cat didn’t try and stuff it into your husband’s mouth.?

Well done BlueBelle for your good deed of the day.I like gulls, how do they stay so clean I wonder, brilliant white plumage.

Lovely tale BlueBell Thank you for taking the trouble to photograph and write about little SSS.

I've thought the very same thing lemongrove, about how white and clean they look. Very beautiful.

Eek. I hope he makes it. Ingenious with the smashed sardines

Well there’s more ...that animal deserves to live he’s got 9 lives
I was worried about him last night as I could hear him crying as I went to sleep but I could also hear his mum calling back so guessed that she would keep feeding him even if he hadn’t a nest to sleep in However when I cane back from work today (yay I ve started back today) he was in the front garden of my neighbours still calling... again I wasn’t too worried as I could see mum on my roof calling back very loudly so I tried to forget about him, a little while later I looked out my window as I heard him crying again and there walking down the middle of the road with a car driving very slowly behind him was Stephen I grabbed a towel ran out threw it over him thank goodness it covered him so I grabbed him and he’s now eaten another tin of sardines and is in my enclosed garden which without flying he shouldn’t be able to get out of so I ll just keep feeding him each day there’s loads of greenery for him to hide under to keep sheltered and his mum who was watching me grab him is on my roof (I m so lucky she didn’t dive bomb me) I should have put him there instead of on the flat roof In the first place but I was thinking of putting him where the mum would see him
Anyway thats chapter 2 hopefully he ll start to fly in a week or two I ll try and get another photo tomorrow

Wow! He's a lucky bird, having you around BlueBell. Well and the driver who slowed down.

How does he feed? Do you just put the sardines in a dish in front of him?

I think his mum is beginning to realise you mean him no harm, dont you?