There's a gang keeping me prisoner in my own house.

[ScaredGul]

I get attacked every time I try and leave. Their parents are worse than they are and have even tried to attack my dog, and my children just for going in our own garden. They don't even let me sleep, and wake my baby up at 4am being loud thugs. Should I call the police?

The seagulls round here don't seem to go to bed. Or if they do, one wakes up and then some more start shouting, then they quiet down until another one wakes up.
It's a bit like the people coming out of the pubs. Noisy bastards, the lot of them!

I remembered fondly reading Jonathan Livingstone Seagull and thought I was saving the next Messiah

Omg they scream at 5am here right outside my bedroom window. And sit on neighbors garage roof and stare at me through the patio doors while I’m eating. Our spaniel quakes at the bloody raptors in our garden

They need asbos, the lot of them.

I find an umbrella to be best line of defence. 🌂☂️

They are gits aren't they? 🤨

There’s an audio recording of something terrible happening to a seagull that the harbour blasts out at this time of year that seems to keep them away. God knows what you’d have to search on YouTube to find it though.

Carry umbrellas to get in/ out of the car. As long as no one is feeding them and they have no access to food they should be gone within a few days now that they’re off the roof.

My mum started feeding a baby gull months ago. They live quite a way from the sea. She gives it tinned sardines and it turns up by 7am every morning now, fully grown adult. She’s hoping it will bring its family 😁

One of my colleagues was saying how he’s started taking his hockey stick with him when walking the dog…helps ward of swooping terrorists!

Chuck some bread in the neighbours garden and they might start terrorising them instead?

Failing that, just live indoors. It’s too hot to go out anyway.

Is it their mating season/time or something? There's an absolute bastard of a seagull that dive bombs me and my dog when we're coming back from walks. I swear it watches out for us.

I'm from Aberdeen originally and the seagulls are monsters. They swop and snatch food from your hands if they get a chance. "Swooping terrorists" - like the poster above said - is a great description.

The other day I looked out of my window, which is opposite a public churchyard and an adult seagull was pecking away at a dead pigeon.
It was so quiet while we were in lockdown. Not a seagull in sight last summer.

A few months ago a neighbour a few doors down started feeding gulls ...I have no idea where they appeared from as we are a fair bit inland. More gathered & now they appear early morning & shout for food. Yesterday afternoon I was in my garden & one lad was on neighbour's chimney watching me (like a hawk) & then he threw his head back & let out a few calls from the depths of his belly... a little bit of me thought it was a battle cry & I held a good grip onto my rake as I looked around for any more handy weapons. But he must have decided I wasn't worth the trouble & to let me go about my business...this time! They are a scourge in urban areas....they should be on the cliffs divebombing as nature intended...or robbing some other unfortunate feathered friend's food.....

They're likely pissed.

No, really!

It's flying ant season. Gulls love them, but after eating loads of them they act drunk. Possibly from formic acid that the ants produce,

article on flying ants mentioning drunken seagulls

Utter arseholes. I keep having to change my dog walking route as we keep getting swooped.

I’m terrified of them after ending up at A&E years ago because of one - it swooped down to steal my niece’s sandwich, I tried to cover her to protect her and ended up getting a chunk out of my hand. Nurses in A&E were all pissing themselves laughing at me 😳

Gull have caused our local large Tesco store to shut off a big chunk of their car park after they had babies in it and got rather aggressive . The Sainsbury’s petrol station across the road were most relieved - the gulls had roosted on their flat roof for the last 3 years , and had run riot all over their forecourt !

Dear God, I thought my woodpigeons were an issue. I'm now so glad I don't live near the coast

Seriously maybe not the police but I think Environmental Health class them as vermin and they can be got rid off.

Long time ago but we had issues at work with sea gulls. Work called Rentokill who 'removed' the huge chicks from the nest.

I have a pet one called Jonathan. It lives on the flat roof outside my bedroom window. We go out with a golf umbrella up at this time of year. Bastarding gulls.

I overheard a neighbour telling a seagull to piss off yesterday....I could sympathise. It did make me chuckle though

Tennis rackets and / or large golf umbrellas are your friend here.

@Apocalyptichorsewoman

They are gits aren't they? 🤨

Is he staring in your window?!

I have three pigeon families residing in my garden, and they have territory fights on my lawn several times a day. And they poo for Britain. I have to patrol the garden daily, picking up the poo.

But today was the worst. I was sitting on my sofa with the patio door open when one of the damn things flew in! Then it panicked, couldn't find it's way out and was flapping around, crashing into the glass of the other half of the door. Jeeze, my heart didn't stop pounding until ten minutes after he finally found his way out.

I had to fit a magnetic cat flap cos a bastard gull kept coming in the house for cat food. Cat just hid!

I thought you meant Boris and Co when I read the title.

You need to fight fire with fire OP. Start waking them up at 2 in the morning. Play your music on loud! Eat in front of them whilst they're stuck behind glass that kind of thing.