To think if you don't like seagulls don't move to the coast

Just witnessed over the last two months the nesting, birth, and raising of first the nestling and then the fledgling by two very attentive parents on the chimney across the road from us. What a delight! The fledgling who is now a juvenile flies over our houses in circles, feeds on the garage roofs, and generally mews around. Such a pleasure to watch and I think the parents are better parents than a lot of humans. They are now teaching juvenile how to swoop and wheel over the houses. Magic.

I had to move away from the seaside in Kent and I really miss the seagulls and the beautiful but noisy parakeets .
What an idiot your relative is!

how they protected their offspring was magnificent.

Not when they dive bomb you, children and/or dogs. Also attack by shitting on you is not pleasant.

I live by the sea and hate the beady eyed fuckers. I was pushing my newborn in a pram with my toddler daughter and we were attacked, one of them gashed my toddler’s hand with its beak and the other was flapping and trying to get into the bassinet.

I know somebody who was under siege as he ate chips so he threw them under a passing van. The feathery villains went after them. 😬

Still love them. They nested on our roof in Fowey for 6 years and Truro for 10 years and how they protected their offspring was magnificent.

God i hate seagulls. I grew up inland and we had seagulls in our city. At the moment we live in a costal city and have the buggers nesting near us. For me, they are a part of life.

If you haven't been subjected to the fuckers, I can see how someone might not realise how much of a pain they can be. Although their size and aggression do vary. The OP's family member may be very unlucky.

This is brilliant!

Seagulls are at least 100 miles inland, apparently.

My son lives by the sea. There’s his long 100ft garden, a parking area, then a small cliff down to the sea. I love the seagulls! I love the noise they make, I love watching them fly. Far more annoying is the pigeons attracted to his next door neighbours bird feeders. They make a hell of a mess and tend to hang out in the roof making more mess. The seagulls don’t tend to do that.
But absolutely- you don’t move next to a farm and complain about the smell (and noise; those cows are LOUD), you don’t move to a city and complain about the cars; you don’t move near an airport and complain about plane noise; and you don’t move by the sea and complain about the seagulls

I think a lot of people don't realise how annoying they are until they move to the sea.

In summer, they pretty much make noise all night.

And they're fucking massive. We've got a fledgling on our roof at the moment, and it honestly sounds like some 16 stone roofer is walking around up there.

I love seagulls. They behave the way they do because of human behaviour.

I like seagulls. They look evil with their beady eyes and get up to all sorts of human annoying tricks. They all live a long way away from me.

Pigeons on the other hand. I hate pigeons who have the title of most annoying inland bird.

Oh I would be so tempted to recall how I'd read something about ways to get gulls to leave a place alone. Maybe bright pink blinds? Maybe a fire pit with sage burning.

Anything you think he might fall for.

I live in a town about 5 miles inland from Bristol (a harbour city). We get them too. There's nests on the roofs of the school buildings behind our house. They clear up all the food the kids drop. When ploughing starts they follow the ploughs looking for worms.

I like seagulls, I don’t understand people

He sounds like an entitled twat. We live near a beach and feel privileged to hear and see the natural inhabitants. At least seagulls don’t leave plastic waste all over the beach.

Also I work in central London right near the Thames and you can always tell if the weather is rough out in the Thames estuary as our building aircon vents on the top floor are a magnet for seagulls noisily warming their toes!

You sometimes can't win with mother nature.

We bought an attic flat in a listed building by the by the sea. Fecking seagulls ate through the lead flashing around a skylight causing leaks and damage that cost over £10,000 to repair.

We also have a house 100 miles inland so no seagulls. However squirrels ate through the plastic soffits and nested in our loft. Repairs and pest extermination cost over £4000.

Our last house was in an outer London suburb that backed onto woods. Deer twice broke through the fence and ate every green leaf and bud in the garden. .

In my Gran's house in rural Ireland a neighbours goat attacked its own reflection in her patio doors and broke the glass.

Seagulls aren’t just by the sea, they’re everywhere, including the Essex city I live in that is a half hour drive from the coast! They’re loud, obnoxious and every time they wake me up (basically every single morning) I dream of shooting them dead!

I grew up rurally and on the coast, 4 mins for my foot to be on sand and seagulls are indeed total cunts.

My attitude to thieving seagulls is the same as my attitude to bin-mining urban foxes and bulb-excavating squirrels.

They gotta right to make a living and feed their kids, just like everyone else.

Oh dear. Bless him.

We are about 30 miles from the coast and still get seagulls. They are bloody awful things. We often see dead birds, intact not run over. DH ( who grew up actually on a coast) that the seagulls knock them out of the sky and kill them.