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over a year ago
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As i live by the Bristol docks,every morning or afternoon or evening ,seagulls have pooped over my car,i went out this morning and they even pooped over my drivers car door handle,and without looking i was covered in it,its worse this time of year to.Do you find them pests  |
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over a year ago
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"Years ago when i lived there they got me down by where lightship used to be...supposed to be lucky apparently....  "
The only person who's lucky is the dry cleaner's  |
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over a year ago
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Llandudno has the biggest and most blatant food robbing seagulls,
I've seen them take cornets out of peoples hands and gulp down in one.
But anyway, I love seagulls,love the sound of them when I'm by the coast.
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Beautiful creatures, resourceful, inquisitive, intelligent birds, good communicators with a highly developed social structure.
They don't have to live off the detritus strewn around by filthy humans but it saves the litter pickers work.
These magnificent creatures are your friends xx
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As a birdwatcher we get quite a number of land gulls inland now days most are drawn to land fill especially in the winter months and roost on the local reservoirs in the mid winter months over 10,000 birds (mainly black headed gull) will gather on certain reservoirs almost like snow on top, I could only ever recall little more than a handful of species of gull at any given time Inland at one time but those figures have changed now and over a dozen species now frequently are present at certain times of the year mostly smaller gulls but there has to be a reason why they have Increased in number (maybe landfill) but normally bigger species are seen there birds like the lesser black backed gull nesting in land in derbyshire thee other year for the first time ever is a Indicator of change but quite simply if their habitats (natural?) are not there can they spread for me personally I don,t want any of the (bigger species) nesting Inland thou at such times it adds Interest if you like watching birds smaller gulls like the black headed also nest Inland successfully but there breeding populations naturally go up and down and they don,t seem to effect the balance of things generally nature generally works things out if left alone... but yes getting your car or buildings covered in bird muck on a regular basis nature won,t work out I will agree it must be a pain to see this happening regularly those herring gulls are big birds in the 1980,s I found some quite photogenic on the harbour side in devon but of course only because they were after food. |
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If it's any consultation op I was driving home on the motorway last week and 2 of them was fighting right over me. suddenly they both dive bombed right in front of me. To cut a long and grisly story short seagulls have a hell of a lot of blood inside them and go pop if hit hard enough. What a mess  |
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"They say that they only come inland when its rough at sea ,is this true "
Yes they will come inland when weather conditions are rough some come further in than others some are just flyovers but if there is any water or water body present some birds Includeing gulls may visit it I once had A fulmar once in june in derbyshire always rare inland but any seabirds can come Inland like gannets etc presently we have quite appropiately named for this site a (shag).. on a reservoir in the
north of the county has been there for some months now others were here to but they have long gone.. probabily easy fishing there..  Amazeing how Adaptable they can be as from salt water to fresh water fish how long this bird remains and its future is something else but this occasionally in the bird world .. we occasionally get skuas come through.. and not long ago (and not jokeing) an albatross came through only flew through thou the last albatross record was back in the mid 1950,s in derbyshire and photographed alive |
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"If it's any consultation op I was driving home on the motorway last week and 2 of them was fighting right over me. suddenly they both dive bombed right in front of me. To cut a long and grisly story short seagulls have a hell of a lot of blood inside them and go pop if hit hard enough. What a mess "
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"As a birdwatcher we get quite a number of land gulls inland now days most are drawn to land fill especially in the winter months and roost on the local reservoirs in the mid winter months over 10,000 birds (mainly black headed gull) will gather on certain reservoirs almost like snow on top, I could only ever recall little more than a handful of species of gull at any given time Inland at one time but those figures have changed now and over a dozen species now frequently are present at certain times of the year mostly smaller gulls but there has to be a reason why they have Increased in number (maybe landfill) but normally bigger species are seen there birds like the lesser black backed gull nesting in land in derbyshire thee other year for the first time ever is a Indicator of change but quite simply if their habitats (natural?) are not there can they spread for me personally I don,t want any of the (bigger species) nesting Inland thou at such times it adds Interest if you like watching birds smaller gulls like the black headed also nest Inland successfully but there breeding populations naturally go up and down and they don,t seem to effect the balance of things generally nature generally works things out if left alone... but yes getting your car or buildings covered in bird muck on a regular basis nature won,t work out I will agree it must be a pain to see this happening regularly those herring gulls are big birds in the 1980,s I found some quite photogenic on the harbour side in devon but of course only because they were after food."
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I had one drop it's guts all over me while sat pillion on a bike near Gloucestershire docks.. Absolutely rank, I gagged most the way home as my partner at the time wasn't aware it happened. I was covered, his back was covered and so was the bike.... Shittiest day ever. Literally!! |
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