Pesky seagulls

[mckenzie]

thankfully I love my job as today I got asked to take on a rather strange project .

At work, we have a seagull issue. As I work for a car dealership, you can perhaps imagine the extra work this causes for staff and the number of disgruntled customers we have when their new car has been covered in seagull poop within 30 seconds of coming out of the showroom.

Has anyone had any success with any of the various options being offered to keep the seagulls at bay?

TIA

[SquinkiesRule]

Pesky is an understatement.
We have two people on the roads either side of us who insist on feeding the darn seagulls. So they nest all over the neighborhood, near the food.
See if you can spot where they are feeding for free and get them to stop, man behind us feeding is a nut who I'm not getting into anything with it cuts the numbers but they don't disappear. We can see the sea so they will be here no matter what.
I hope you can find a solution, no fun having to re wash cars, or in my case, the laundry that I put out on the line.

[mckenzie]

Thanks Squinkiesrule. I've not been personally affected (yet) by the seagulls as I park off site but I feel your pain as a bird has this morning pooped on my washing line!
We do have a food bank on the same estate as the dealership so I'll see what there waste set up is like.

[mckenzie]

Or even 'their' waste

[SilverHawk]

Try a hawk bird scarer kite. www.gullstop.co.uk/hawk_kite_bird_scarer_complete_kit.asp I have seen quite a few nearby and they seem to work much better than stationary plastic birds of prey. Cheaper versions on Amazon/Ebay.
It sounds as if your problem is flying seagulls as opposed to nesting on your building. If you have them on your roof you can use spikes or nets.

[mckenzie]

Thanks silver hawk. I'll take a look.

[SilverHawk]

Do give an update, whatever you do, seagulls are not popular round here either.
Many heads are better than one, as the saying goes.

[DustyBustle]

I live near the coast and the car dealerships around here all have those hawk kite things, and I've noticed they replace them when they get tatty or break so imagine they must be working.

[mckenzie]

Thank you Dusty. That's what is being suggested by our site agents. I think that will be the way to go.