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?

My dd had a message from her old old halls at uni, ones she lived in a few years ago, to say she couldn't use the wheelchair access door as there was a seagull nest above it and they were flying down and attacking people using that entrance!
We've just done a dog walk and saw loads of gulls flying around the small trees. Realised they were eating the June bugs, so they're not all bad murdering attackers. Well, apart from June bugs that is

Seagulls are protected. I found that out reading about that awful man who beat one to death a few days ago on a beach. The herring gulls OP posted are beautiful. I'm nowhere near the sea, but whilst up all night at hospital a few weeks ago, about 5am, me and the woman next to me in the waiting room looked at each other in surprise at the sound of yep, seagulls! Loudly 'singing'

Water pistols

What annoys me is the hypocrisy of Mother seagulls , you see the poor babies at the seaside wandering along behind them , peeping 'Mum' every couple of seconds in a forlorn manner. These same Mother's who would have fought to the death on their behalf, just a few short weeks before, completely ignore them, whilst eyeing up your chips. Shocking !

This is my parents “pet” turning up for its dinner

@Tupperwarelid

This is my parents “pet” turning up for its dinner

I wouldn't refuse him his dinner, he's got a steely determined look in his eye...

He'll replace you mark my words...

I feel for you OP. We have had kamakaze blackbirds. There seems to be a slight misunderstanding as to who owns the garden. Everytime I go to put the washing out they dive bomb me and have me running back in. Viscous things..

They’re very sweet but yes, thuglike. Watched umpteen families being terrorised on the beach in Looe last week by ‘starving’ gulls. One tried to steal my DH’s wetsuit 😅

They're a pain in the bloody arse. And to think during lock down I bought mealworms for them because there was no rubbish for them to go through.

The chicks are the worst, goady fuckers fall out the nest then sit there looking so smug because if anyone has to walk past they get a beak flying at them.

Wing flapping fuckers!!

Whenever I see a thread about Seagulls, it always make me think of the Canadian hotel story where they ‘invaded’ this guys room! 😂😂😂 Link

Flying rats we call them. Their poop damages car paintwork. One elderly neighbour was being terrorised. So the following year DS shinned up a ladder went to the nest and pricked the eggs. Did the same the following year. Never nested there again

There were streets where I used to live that were no-go zones for months in the summer due to the seagulls attacking you if you dared walk down them. The local newspaper reported that one poor man lost a chunk of his ear to a gull!

The residents ended up making signs but you always got someone who ignored them and ended up running for their life.

Btw I didn't live in some picturesque seaside town, it was bloody north London!

I came across this at Scarborough. So loud and the bastards stole the fish from my plate

They scare the bejesus out of my guinea pigs when they’re in their run, they sit on our roof and shriek, then when they see the guinea pigs run for cover they do a sort of cackling laughing cry - I think the gills get a sort of sick enjoyment out of it!

*gulls

Don’t worry, OP. The seagulls’ deadly rivals the OAPs are going to sort them out this weekend:
www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/war/seagulls-and-pensioners-meet-in-eastbourne-to-finish-things-once-and-for-all-20190925189332

@thenightsky nothing quite like a wood pigeon singing the song of its people, using your chimney as a megaphone.

Mah nah nah. Ad Infinitum.

I once saw a seagull holding a pigeon under water to drown it. And then eat it.

Umbrellas to and from the house. It's how friends survived gulls 'protecting' their youngsters in their garden one summer.

Actually we had a jackdaw fall down the chimney a few months ago. It tried to perch on my poinsettia that I'd been nurturing in the hope that I could get it to flower next year too, and completely fucked it.

Stupid corvid. Their beaks are frigging lethal up close though, I flung the windows open and ran.

@heronsinflight

I once saw a seagull holding a pigeon under water to drown it. And then eat it.

What. The. Fuck?

@ScaredGul

I've put Alexa through the cat flap and I'm playing vulture noises. I'll report back.

This reminds me a little bit of “I’ve tried sex lube and a fish slice”

Ours are very loud, but luckily they are in all out turf war with a species other than humans - the crows, so ignore us.