howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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two young women threw down the equivalent of 2 loaves of bread this morning in pencester gardens.
this is the result a few seconds later.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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someone put a load of seed down just past the nick going toward the riverside centre.
looked like a scene out of an old "hitchcock" film.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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yes it is a regulat thing howard
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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That seagull doesn't look too happy about the brown pigeon pinching his dinner!
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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it appears to be a problem, not sure how best resolved though
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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a cull would come in handy,the birds and the people that feed them.
Guest 713- Registered: 19 Mar 2011
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I can remember many years ago there used to be a thing called " Seagull week" where by council works & some local builders would remove the eggs from the nest. What a pity they do not do this now.
We live near the sea. So do seagulls. D'uh!
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A few Harris hawks would clear the town centre of airborne vermin quite quickly.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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rats are an urban creature,however we do not put out a bowl of food for them.
it is a known fact that feeding gulls and pigeons does nothing to help them, they just lose the skills to find their own food in a suitable environment fior them.
True - I just get a bit irritated when people living near the sea moan about seagulls!! Feeding the birds is cool, though - we have such a lovely array of wild birds that gather on our bird table - which is deliberately too small for gulls to get onto!!
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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It is not the seagulls or the pigeons we moan about, it is the purely the large number of them that would not be there if they were not fed.
Bern, do you get the squirrels as well as the birds, we do.
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Indeed we do. Lovely!! Fewer this year so far though, sadly.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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BERN
I understand where your coming from
but when theres 100's it can be a problem
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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It can be a problem when a seagull does a stuka dive and lets one drop.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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That happened to me in Pencester, I never got the mark out of my brand new top.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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its a difficult one to solve
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Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Oh dear, they really shouldn't be fed like this. Bread isn't particularly good for them and they are more than capable of finding their own food via their natural scavenging instincts. It encourages them to fight each other as they compete for scraps and they can sustain serious injuries or worse.
In fact feeding them makes them bold and more prone to become a pest in the parks as their 'fear factor' of humans is removed. I suspect most of us have been menaced at one time or another whilst sitting on a bench, that's because we are just seen as a potential food source rather than a threat.
However, Herring gulls are declining in number and are protected in law. There are half the breeding pairs in the UK than there were twenty years ago, so please no more silly talk of culls just because they can be annoying - this isn't the 1950s. Although we seem to have a high population here, it is localised and by no means reflects the national picture.
Pigeons, on the other hand are a different kettle of fish.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Looks like we have to find a way for some of our gulls to emigrate to the areas where they are needed. I will happily pay for his flight if it gets rid of the thief who keeps breaking into next door's black sacks.
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