Feeding Seagulls an Offence?

DolphinGirl_2

Traycyem67: You are being totally irresponsible. Think of your neighbours, the mess on their washing, their safety with the viciousness of the gulls and realise that gulls are called SEAgulls for a reason! People like you are encouraging them to feed inland, therefore are the very reason SO many people all over the country are seriously suffering problems due to these sky rats. They are dangerous and becoming more so all the time with people feeding them, they steal food from children, adults, even through open windows in the summer. A little lad got his eye gouged out by one a few years ago near here.....for simply walking along with his icecream, which a gull swooped down to take, catching the boys eye. Their excrement on washing, cars, windows etc is all but impossible to wash off. Why cant you see this? I too live on the coast and the gulls are not on the cliffs or down at the harbour, they are all on rooftops high up in the village.....BECAUSE some irresponsible naive people feed them. Wake up and start helping your community, rather than being part of the problem!:mad:

candygirl

Spendless wrote: »

Feeding pigeons in our town centre is an offence. Not long after this rule came in, a man was featured in our paper because pigeons had been eating from his bird table, and he'd had a visit from someone official telling him he wasn't allowed. The man said he had no idea how to feed birds but ban pigeons, but in order to please our council he had put up a sign on his birdtable, that he was pictured beside. It read

No pigeons by order of X Council :rotfl: :rotfl:

:T:T:T:T:T:T:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Tropez

DolphinGirl wrote: »

Traycyem67: You are being totally irresponsible. Think of your neighbours, the mess on their washing, their safety with the viciousness of the gulls and realise that gulls are called SEAgulls for a reason! People like you are encouraging them to feed inland, therefore are the very reason SO many people all over the country are seriously suffering problems due to these sky rats. They are dangerous and becoming more so all the time with people feeding them, they steal food from children, adults, even through open windows in the summer. A little lad got his eye gouged out by one a few years ago near here.....for simply walking along with his icecream, which a gull swooped down to take, catching the boys eye. Their excrement on washing, cars, windows etc is all but impossible to wash off. Why cant you see this? I too live on the coast and the gulls are not on the cliffs or down at the harbour, they are all on rooftops high up in the village.....BECAUSE some irresponsible naive people feed them. Wake up and start helping your community, rather than being part of the problem!:mad:

You realise that the person you bumped this thread to have a pop at hasn't actually made a single post since the one on this thread and is in all likelihood a one-time troll?

chucknorris

hfr45 wrote: »

I agree with Squidge60, it should be. With bread over £1 a loaf perhaps bread pudding would be a better idea.

Surely the seagulls aren't that fussy that they prefer bread (and butter) pudding to just plain bread?

johno35

have to agree , these things are flying rats . there s three neighbours across the road from me that feed the things three times a day .
i own a new car and the new water based paint s are not as resilent as the older now banned two pack paints.
im really getting sick of it. my car is in the flight path . tey gain height after feeding over my house where the car is in the drive.
i have complained peacefully to them as they are all elderly but it s fallen on deaf ears . what else can i do. some days the car and our front window are just splattered with gull crap. i have fixed the chimney so that they can no longer nest there . bloody inconsiderate to say the least
ok rant over

puddy

blimey, am i the only person that quite likes seagulls? we moved from london to the coast a couple of years back and one of the reasons is that i love that seagull sound, waking up in the morning to that is nice

the dog gets a bit irate with them though and barks at them if they swoop over the garden!

pinkladyof66

tracyem67 wrote: »

I live by the coast and always feed the seaguls my spare chips. They are so clever they can catch them as I throw them up into the flock that gathers hovering over my head :A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A:A

yes i live near the coast too I usually feed the swans but more often the seagulls get the bread, I love throwing it into the air too for the seagulls to catch. Best place for stale mouldy bread if you ask me.
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Caroline_a

jim22 wrote: »

When my father was in the air force in India it was not the seagulls they had to worry about, but what the servicemen called the sh*t hawk. When walking out of the canteen to the outside tables they had to cover their plates with another, otherwise the hawks would swoop down and steal the steaks from their plates!!

My dad used to tell the same tale when he was in Burma. When the red kites were introduced he mumbled a lot about it not being a good idea... :rotfl:

Not sure they had steaks during the War though!

FatVonD

curtlyb wrote: »

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You're correct but to be fair her back garden was knee high in rotting food in places, the stench was said to be unbearable and rats were causing chaos for neighbours. At times there were estimated to be between 1000 & 2000 birds 'hanging around' with their excrement corroding anything in its way..... i found it quite funny but living next door must have been hell !:D.... Trafalgar Square wasn't even close !

I used to live near her, she'd leave huge piles of bread (a carrier bag full at least at a time) all round the local streets too and they also found lots of dead foxes in her house too that she'd collected from the streets :eek: I think she was warned to stop feeding the pigeons before she was jailed but clearly prison was not the right place for her.

I like pigeons myself

j.e.j.

johno35 wrote: »

have to agree , these things are flying rats . there s three neighbours across the road from me that feed the things three times a day .
i own a new car and the new water based paint s are not as resilent as the older now banned two pack paints.
im really getting sick of it. my car is in the flight path . tey gain height after feeding over my house where the car is in the drive.
i have complained peacefully to them as they are all elderly but it s fallen on deaf ears . what else can i do. some days the car and our front window are just splattered with gull crap. i have fixed the chimney so that they can no longer nest there . bloody inconsiderate to say the least
ok rant over

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I don't mind gulls, but if you feed them they show their gratitude by pooing everywhere. In nesting season they have been known to dive-bomb people too :eek: