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?

Good luck!! I’ve been driven crackers by some here!
I’ve tried loads with no success. At my lowest ebb I tried to squirt them with a water pistol (a supersoaker no less) and it did nothing. My DP laughed a lot & then pointed out that they were ‘sea’-gulls and were very used to getting wet!

@frumpety

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 !

They're probably sick of them-I was looking out of a 3rd story window once, at a mother and juvenile on a roof opposite. She got so tired of it begging for food that she hopped onto a different roof and left it behind!

Apparently they learn really fast if you are nice to them. If you start putting out fish for them or scrambled egg then they wont swoop you and theyll be your friend instead

I feel for you.
bin day is helmet territory here.

when the adults kick out the youngsters it's quite brutal.

We don't see many gulls here but the other day a seagull saw off a bird of prey over our garden, it was really going for the raptor, it was quite vicious.

I've got a twat of a neighbour, no I'll rephrase that a cunt of a neighbour who scrapes the leftovers on his dinner plate onto the pavement outside his house for the bastarding seagulls. He also throws bread out on the communal car park behind his house. It's like a Hitchcock film. He's the first person to moan about litter and mess on the street.

@TroysMammy

I've got a twat of a neighbour, no I'll rephrase that a cunt of a neighbour who scrapes the leftovers on his dinner plate onto the pavement outside his house for the bastarding seagulls. He also throws bread out on the communal car park behind his house. It's like a Hitchcock film. He's the first person to moan about litter and mess on the street.

Try to time chucking a load of juicy morsels on his doorstep just before he steps out. A gang of them dive bombing his head might teach him the error of his ways.

I found this one behind our trailer at an event. I wanted to keep it. Maybe it's a good job I left him there, I have enough people badgering me for food.

So cute though!

I was sitting in my sister's kitchen (on the coast) eating a sandwich and monster of a seagull marched into the kitchen and took my sandwich off my plate. If that wasn't bad enough it came back a couple of minutes later for my packet of crisps. When I told my sister she said 'oh yeah, that's Dave', like it was a totally normal occurrence.

When we had our caravan, as my dad was a very early riser, he used to make a cup of coffee and go for walk. If there were any caravans where people had behaved like arse holes he used to chuck bread on the roof of their caravan.

So come very early sunrise, on your summer holiday, say half 5 in the morning, people would be wide awake with the sound of seagulls descending on the caravan - similar to the sound of a bag of spanners being tipped from a great height 😁

You need to stop feeding them. Clearly they are hanging around looking for hand-outs.

Klaxon?

it came back a couple of minutes later for my packet of crisps.
😂😂😂

I nearly crashed once, when a seagull shat on my windscreen when I was doing 70 on a dual carriageway. I'd just gone under a bridge and all of a sudden the entire windscreen went white, like someone had thrown a sheet over it.

It was thick, gloopy shite too, to the point where I wondered if some vandal had emptied a can of white emulsion from the bridge. It took all the water from my washer bottle to get it clean, and when I got home, the car was splattered along both sides.

And be careful if you have a sun roof, too. DP once had an old jag with a sunroof and a seagull managed to shit through it. Luckily, it all went over his vile ex, not a speck on him, and the upholstery was leather, so fairly easy to get the crap off.

She was covered in it, it was all in her hair and everything. Sadly, it was in the days before mobiles and she wouldn't let him take a picture.

I hate the fuckers, but I have a bird phobia so I have an excuse. I had to get a supermarket security guard to chase one off the roof of my car once, it lunged at me every time I went near the car and I was bloody terrified.

If I hadn't had CBT, I think I'd have to avoid the coast.

@Nitgel

I was in london yesterday and saw some that were gigantic. What's going on !

Those were probally Herringulls @Nitgel They are huge

On holiday in Madeira (distant memory), the hotel hired a man-with-a-hawk to scare off the bastards during meal services.

Scary buggers but clever with it. I love that tap-dancing thing they do on lawns to fool the worms into thinking it's raining. Respect.

Its wild life! Be kind to them and they are kind to you. They are tryi ng to communicate to you that they are hungry. X

Gulls use my next door neighbours car as a toilet, dont know why he's never offended them and the car rarely ly moves from that spot but boy o boy it's Covered in s*ite more often than not.
They also steal bags if they think there's food in them... My partner came in one evening in pain with having laughed so hard, he had just watched several seagulls pounce on the back of his pickup van and steal several small black FULL dog poo bags that had accumulated there that day when he had been away on a job with our dog as company 🤣🤣🤣

Poison pilchards and a pellet gun do the job nicely. Unless you have a bird of prey handy ,
I watched a kite bring down a pigeon in my garden the other week and rip it to shreds………… it was beautiful….. 😀

@Chumleymouse

Poison pilchards and a pellet gun do the job nicely. Unless you have a bird of prey handy , I watched a kite bring down a pigeon in my garden the other week and rip it to shreds………… it was beautiful….. 😀

That's a really grim post. Are you quite well?

@ScaredGul

I managed to get a photo of the yobs for evidence.

Yikes!

I’m fine, thanks for asking 🙂

Thugs. Not cute at all. they literally divebomb you with their massive pointy beaks, to protect their young. Time to look out a tinfoil hat - or a collander at least.