islandgun Posted July 10, 2019 Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 Another thought about pacham et al. recently discovered in Australia, gulls carrying super bug and the world wide potential for serious illness. wonder what would be his response to his antibiotic not working when he gets a cold https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-48916923 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShootingEgg Posted July 10, 2019 Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 They won't even care, they will just say its our own fault for the way we manage waste etc. And that the birds aren't doing it on purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam triple Posted July 10, 2019 Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 read that article earlier ,a bit worrying as they poo on everything ,even my mates balding head , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted July 10, 2019 Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 3 hours ago, ShootingEgg said: They won't even care, they will just say its our own fault for the way we manage waste etc. And that the birds aren't doing it on purpose. Which, sadly, is true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted December 14, 2019 Report Share Posted December 14, 2019 (edited) There are far too many gulls they should be culled and numbers watched closely. Edited December 14, 2019 by figgy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perazzishot Posted December 14, 2019 Report Share Posted December 14, 2019 Responsible for the death of a child from Ecoli 0157 a few years ago after it was traced back to a picnic bench where the lad had eaten his lunch. Contaminated seagull ****! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisheruk Posted December 14, 2019 Report Share Posted December 14, 2019 2 hours ago, figgy said: There are far too many hills they should be culled and numbers watched closely. How do you cull a hill? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted December 14, 2019 Report Share Posted December 14, 2019 This sodding phones text things doing my nut in this last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted December 19, 2019 Report Share Posted December 19, 2019 Always amaze me were they come from ?plough thr first furrow and there are hundreds of them . harnser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oowee Posted December 19, 2019 Report Share Posted December 19, 2019 There are certainly plenty and two or three species at least if I could tell them apart. What harm do they do? I see the stuff re contaminated poo but I suspect its the same for corvids? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old farrier Posted December 19, 2019 Report Share Posted December 19, 2019 7 minutes ago, oowee said: There are certainly plenty and two or three species at least if I could tell them apart. What harm do they do? I see the stuff re contaminated poo but I suspect its the same for corvids? Not to mention the duck chicks they take down here or the nesting nuisance on building’s maybe if we stopped fishing they would be at sea a bit more not scavenging the tips and seafront Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southeastpete Posted December 19, 2019 Report Share Posted December 19, 2019 I read a few things about the declining numbers of earthworms, and wondered if it might be to do with the seagulls. So many more and further inland these days. When you see them behind tractors in their hundreds or thousands, you wonder if there could be any worms left Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted December 24, 2019 Report Share Posted December 24, 2019 (edited) Farms are full of black headed gulls, heads usually dark brown in colour. Living near the coast with the amount of herring gulls wasn't fun. Big nasty things with razor sharp beaks. The Cack out of them takes the paint off your car. They make a hell of a mess of your roof if they nest. And the noise they make is horrendous. Numbers have gone through the roof in last couple of decades. As a youth we used to shoot them with catapults in the buildings and yards round the docks and harbour. Edited December 24, 2019 by figgy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perazzishot Posted December 24, 2019 Report Share Posted December 24, 2019 2 scars on my head from a total of 7 stitches from Herring gulls glancing blows! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShootingEgg Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 On 24/12/2019 at 03:08, figgy said: Farms are full of black headed gulls, heads usually dark brown in colour. Living near the coast with the amount of herring gulls wasn't fun. Big nasty things with razor sharp beaks. The Cack out of them takes the paint off your car. They make a hell of a mess of your roof if they nest. And the noise they make is horrendous. Numbers have gone through the roof in last couple of decades. As a youth we used to shoot them with catapults in the buildings and yards round the docks and harbour. Suposidly only 140,000 nesting pairs in England....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted December 29, 2019 Report Share Posted December 29, 2019 10 hours ago, ShootingEgg said: Suposidly only 140,000 nesting pairs in England....... Most of them must be around our way , the Herring Gulls are now nesting on buildings in Lowertoft town centre , and in Yarmouth they are nesting on the industrial sites , in the market place there are signs up about feeding the gulls , it came to a head when a little child in a trolley was eating a ice cream and the gull came from nowhere and nicked it out of her hand , then on the other end of the scale , a ole boy hit one with his walking stick and there was hell to play , you would have thought he had murdered someone for the amount of stick he got . Like Harnser was saying , one minute you don't see one and then the next minute there are loads of them , when I was young boy in the late 50s we would go down the fish wharf and chuck an ole Herring on to the pitch roof with not a gull in sight and you could bet a pound to a penny a Herring Gull would come from nowhere and catch it before it rolled down the roof , it would then sit on the ridge a swallow it whole in one go . greedy buggxxs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old farrier Posted December 29, 2019 Report Share Posted December 29, 2019 13 minutes ago, marsh man said: Most of them must be around our way , the Herring Gulls are now nesting on buildings in Lowertoft town centre , and in Yarmouth they are nesting on the industrial sites , in the market place there are signs up about feeding the gulls , it came to a head when a little child in a trolley was eating a ice cream and the gull came from nowhere and nicked it out of her hand , then on the other end of the scale , a ole boy hit one with his walking stick and there was hell to play , you would have thought he had murdered someone for the amount of stick he got . Like Harnser was saying , one minute you don't see one and then the next minute there are loads of them , when I was young boy in the late 50s we would go down the fish wharf and chuck an ole Herring on to the pitch roof with not a gull in sight and you could bet a pound to a penny a Herring Gull would come from nowhere and catch it before it rolled down the roof , it would then sit on the ridge a swallow it whole in one go . greedy buggxxs And the other half are down here far too many of them they eat anything including rabbits and leveretes the amount of ducklings taken is horrendous there should be something in place for keeping a balance agreeing that it is probably our fault decimating the herring stock and depletion of there food sources there should be something on the general license to help in some area’s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShootingEgg Posted December 29, 2019 Report Share Posted December 29, 2019 I had issues with them on a building site and when we needed to control them, WJ decided to put in their fight, NE were less than helpful when trying to get the individual licences and we had to stop work on the roof top putting the build back a month. Evil aggressive when they have eggs or young Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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