Well now I ve got a dilemma

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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 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!

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.

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

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

Bluebelle What a lovely story. Thanks for helping him. I'm glad he got back together with his mum. Well done

Oh what a fabulous story! ?
A couple of years ago we were staying in a guest room above a pub in Cornwall and our window overlooked a small bit of roof with steep sides all around. A baby seagull fell down and was looking pathetically at us... couldn’t get a run up to take off and the parents were making a right noise calling him. We went down and told the guy behind the bar about it... he managed to lean out from a staff window and grab it. Put it back on the roof... we congratulated ourselves on ‘saving’ him (we call him Johnathan Livingston... I’m that age ?...)
Next day when we came back from the beach - guess what... he was down again. This happened 3 times during our stay, when we left, we wondered if we should have left a note for the next occupants to take over ‘SEAGULL WATCH’...?

My mother once rescued a fully adult sea-gull that had broken its wing.

She kept it in the largest birdcage she had - one my father had made and it was large, fed it on cat's fish and water, much to the disgust of the cat, I may add. Said cat had his own ideas about birds, which didn't include keeping them in cages.

Peter, as we called him, recovered and returned to the wild, but came to visit now and again. We knew him because although his wing bone knitted properly, he had a bare patch where no feathers grew.

The last time he came, he had another seagull with him.

We did sometimes wonder if he was male or female.

Hope your gull does well too.

If the chimney isn't in use, do get a roofer to put something over the top.

Well done Bluebelle so nice to hear of someone helping a seagull.

Yes, sometimes they're greedy and aggressive but I love to hear the calls of gulls near the sea.

BlueBelle

You’ve cheered so many people. I couldn’t believe it when I saw all those comments whizzing in.

Thank you

P.S. are you ready for when Stephen shows his siblings how he got in?!!??

What a lovely story!

Wondeful following the adventures of Stephen.