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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 

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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.

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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....... 

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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 

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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 

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