Our feathered friends
- 11 September 2011 12:03125927i thought they were a protected specie.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/ministers-declare-war-on-plague-of-urban-seagulls-2352872.html - 11 September 2011 12:08125928Excellent news.Marek
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11 September 2011 13:30125941I've often wondered, how far inland do seagulls go? Do they have them in Brum for instance?
TerryQuis custodiet ipsos custodes? - 11 September 2011 15:47125969Am I alone here? I actually like seagulls
There's always a little truth behind every "Just kidding", a little emotion behind every "I don't care" and a little pain behind every "I'm ok". - 11 September 2011 15:52125974No Jacqui, you are not alone. I like them too.
- 11 September 2011 15:53125975i must admit that i think they are good to look at and highly intelligent.
not so keen on the one that drops his load on my washing though. - Brian Dixon
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11 September 2011 16:30125982or on ones head as well.
- 11 September 2011 19:22126005And edible apparently.
http://www.rivercottage.net/users/foodiemumontheroad/blog/eating-seagull-or-kf-seagull/I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson - 11 September 2011 19:42126023i was once told that seagulls should not be eaten by us because of all the rubbish that they eat.
i replied "so why do we eat pork, bacon and ham"? - 12 September 2011 13:17126112Seagull eggs were very useful during the War apparently....---------------------------------------------------
Lincolnshire Born and Bred - 12 September 2011 15:19126124Up here in the clouds we live in close proximity with the airborne wildlife. This guy clearly as tame as you can get...
I suspect though that there are too many of them. This year if you look carefully you can see, or could see earlier in the season, loads and loads of young ones, those with the brown feathers. Ive never seen so many before, it was clearly a bumper crop of new borns. Many of them sitting on the Hotel roof for example...never seen so many before. Whatever was in the wind, it was a very successful year for breeding.email: dover7@msn.com - Jan Higgins
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12 September 2011 16:27126133Paul, you have hit the problem on the head so to speak. It is purely the excessive number of these noisy squawking, sh...ing machines around the town that is the problem.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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12 September 2011 16:49126136paulb,that one looks like the one that escaped from the white cliff experiance when they closed it down a few years ago,oh by the way his name is sid and when he sqowks [talks] he is full of info.
- 12 September 2011 17:21126150lol!! Brian..oh you are a one !!
Judging by how few I can answer on Howards mammoth threat Where is it?...I need someone to squak info at me about the local wherewithall. Do I have to put a shilling in his beak!?
Jan yes I think that about sums it up. Everything is great in limited doses. Culling is very emotive, do you remember when they used to cull those lovely white innocent seal pubs. Oh dear..fairly awful. I take it there was a legit reason. But on the face of it, its an awful prospect but maybe these things just have to be done.email: dover7@msn.com - 12 September 2011 17:26126153the report says that they are declining in numbers, although it doesn't seem that way to us.
they seem to have more bravado as each year passes, the one that is adopted by next door bashes his beak on the cat flap when he wants feeding.
