My poor seagulls

I've just realised its not May yet! They may still come! Going senile, I am.

Up here in darkest Norfolk, we get may bugs! I couldn't believe it when I first had one fly into my bedroom. Horrible droning sound and crashing into things. They are the weirdest looking things. Can't believe they are English as they look so exotic. Didn't get any this year strangely enough. Poor things don't live long and then you flind them on their backs all dried up.
It's probably instinct that causes us to shy away from these things.

Ooh yes. I don't like moths indoors. [shudder] Or birds.

(I'm not a complete nature hater!)

The things that disgust me are moths. Totally irrational and I don't kill them but they make me feel yuk

I think seagulls are magnificent birds. Granted they are very noisy and pull stuff out of bins BUT.......

I truly hate seagulls. I'm not too fond of pigeons either.

I got pigeons nesting on some ivy outside my window and it always touches me to see them coming back with twigs. I'd be bloody angry if anyone tried to get rid of them.

Oh please...........can we stop being horrible to living creatures????? I don't like spiders but have for no right to kill them so I don't.

The wind has just blown their nest that they have taken a week to build into the garden! I have a feeling they aren't much good at this parenting lark rather like some humans

Well they are off again to give it another go and rebuilding their nest. Every time they bring a twig back they yak away for ages about it - probably deciding where it should go.

Any animal that we find inconvenient is described as "vermin" but as whitewave said they have as much right to be here as we have, and if anything has made the world a terrifying, polluted and dangerous place, it is us.

I believe experts say that gulls are not deliberately attacking humans but because humans have fed them they see them as a food source. I don't really think it's a good idea, in the main, to feed wild animals.

Pigeon is dead

I've only just read this thread. A gull took a chunk out of my husband's nose in St Ives some years back, snatching the ice cream from the cone he was eating. We weren't in an exposed or open area, we were sitting in the shade of a small building. We were ignorant at that stage about how aggressive they can be and there were no warning signs. To add insult to injury, it flew off a short distance, dropped the ice cream, pecked at it a few times and then flew off.

I am used to mine. They seem to talk to each other each time they get to the chimney where they are "nesting" I suppose the winter might give them a clue that the egg won't hatch! They aren't there the whole time now but do spend part of the day on the nest.

Hey whitewave ever been to Mevagissy?

We arrived at lunch time; trippers were carrying fish n' chips to eat outside. A man opened his fishy parcel wide, revealing the enormity of his battered fish. While flourishing his lunch, a herring gull swooped. leaving the man with only small bits. lol
Who'd want to eat a scrap after it had fallen from a gull's beak? Yuk.

An aerial scrimmage ensued. The first gull lost half to another and so it continued.

BTW, we stayed overnight in Gloucester, in the city - on different trip. We were kept awake by the herring gulls' raucous calls. They only quietened when the lights went off :-( Then restarted at dawn.]

Can't find a smiley for tired or shattered.

Put pigeon in cardboard box with something soft, water and grain. He may well be strong enough to fly away before too long.

Is he ringed? Racing pigeons get lost and tired. There is enough information on the ring to contact the owner.

As well as sitting seagulls I now have what appears a perfectly healthy pigeon that can't fly! He is sat in the greenhouse at the moment -I will give him another chance this morning (dog in house) if he is still the same he will have to go back in the greenhouse away from dog and cats.

You get this with broody hens too, sitting for months on eggs that are not going to hatch. They'll get the message eventually and give up.

Still sitting!!!!

As long as he keeps them out of his restaurant in Padstow!

Well he obviously gives off kind vibes - he doesn't even mind them pooping! Respect.

I thought the young were ferociously guarded and protected by the parent birds - certainly round here you daren't go near one without an adult gull squawking and swooping at you!

Rick Stein enjoys the babies walking into his house. What a kind man!

I live some 12 miles from the sea yet seagulls are a still a pest. They do attack people, and no matter how much of a nature lover you are if an animal (or bird) attacks a child the reaction is to get rid of that animal, - just like the "good parent gulls". Gulls will also attack other birds they consider rivals for food.