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 husband's work provided broomsticks and umbrellas because they were physically attacking workers moving between buildings. When they didn't attack by swooping and hitting they attacked with shit. Workers were getting covered by falling missiles of disgusting bird shit. The following year they had the professionals in to get rid of the problem.

They've obviously learned how to open lids, as well as how to steal your food

Zips, too; I sat on a beach once, incredulously watching a gull unzip a nylon backpack to get at the food inside

Okay it was a kid's backpack, quite thin and presumably with a fairly loose zip, but even so ...

Zips, too; I sat on a beach once, incredulously watching a gull unzip a nylon backpack to get at the food inside

@Nitgel

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

They're bl8ddy massive!

We get loads of the buggers here and they are loud, raucous, aggressive and greedy.

Unfortunately they are now a protected species and you can't just lob a hand grenade at them

@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….. 😀

Much better to simply pellet gun the eggs. Rotting dead birds on the rooftops means showers of maggots down the outbuilding roofs and a horrible summer filled with millions of extra flies. I do like to see birds of prey in action but rather it be vermin birds than little sparrows and the like.

Noisy fuckers. And i cant stand the screechy whiny noise that baby ones make. And every time i go on holiday to the coast one of the fuckers shits on me 🤬

DH had an ice cream stolen from his hands by a seagull on his 50th birthday. I thought he was going to cry.

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.

Is this what they are doing? I have a pair that do it each morning around 4.30/5am on the gutter outside my bedroom window. I'd assumed they were a couple indulging in some early morning romance 👀. Whilst camping last week I was unlucky enough to have a similar scenario in the tree above my tent.

We took DS1 to a farm park in South Wales and had to leave the buggy while we went on the land train. Came back to discover muddy gull prints all over his blanket, changing bag open, they had been though everything looking for food. Cheeky fuckers!

We have seagulls nesting on the flat roofs and chimney stacks of houses down our road. they arrive every summer, and hang about until their babies have learnt to fly.
They're still here currently, but hopefully about another month and they will be gone.
Trouble is, they don't go to sleep at night and roost like other birds. they are governed by the tides ( we are a seaside city), so depending on the state of the tide, they will be wheeling and screaming at 3 or 4 a.m.
It's flippin' great during this hot weather when we like to have the windows open. Noisy swines!

@Lockdownbear

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.

Au contraire.

The bar stewards have the law on their side.

www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/gardening-for-wildlife/animal-deterrents/gulls/urban-gulls-and-the-law/

Baby seagulls are quite aggressive

they are total gits but i like them

The babies are cute when they hatch, but after that seagulls are horrible, evil aggressive and open bins and spread the contents everywhere! It’s difficult when you live in a seaside town. But nothing makes me angrier than holiday makers and day trippers feeding their bloody chips to them!!! This is why they get bold and swoop down and steal people’s food out of their hands!

Please, PLEASE don’t feed seagulls when you visit a seaside town!!!!

Oh dear, I remember a huge, very expensive redevelopment that was held up for months because one gull had nested on the roof of one of the buildings slated for demolition, and it's illegal to disturb the noisy buggers

We also have a huge flock that roost in the playing field behind us and every night, some bugger disturbs them and they all start shouting.

Trouble is, they don't go to sleep at night and roost like other birds. they are governed by the tides ( we are a seaside city), so depending on the state of the tide, they will be wheeling and screaming at 3 or 4 a.m.

I never knew that but have recently been in Bournemouth and couldn't work out why they were shrieking at silly times. I just assumed they'd been disturbed but know better now

So since you know about gulls, here's the biggie: why do we never see a dead one? I realise that if they die on land that foxes, etc, will help themselves, but you'd think to see one sometimes ...

So since you know about gulls, here's the biggie: why do we never see a dead one? I realise that if they die on land that foxes, etc, will help themselves, but you'd think to see one sometimes ...

Good point because I see dead pigeons all
The time despite the fact the seagulls eat those. I had to swerve to avoid hitting one today that was polishing off the last of a dead pigeon wing

the tide thing explains a lot. thanks.

whenever there is a storm coming the gulls congregate in sheltered areas. they like to sit on the swings in a playground just like a scene from 'birds'.

why do we never see a dead one? I realise that if they die on land that foxes, etc, will help themselves, but you'd think to see one sometimes

I've seen a few dead ones. I suspect a lot of cannibalism.

@whatnow47

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..

Last year, DH (actually his car) was harrassed by a very militant blackbird who determinedly shat down the driver's window every day for weeks. Every. Day.

DH bought a chainsaw and chopped down the laburnum bush which overhung his car, hoping to remove the blackbird's toilet perch. Didn't work. Blackbird just thumbed its nose at DH and accurately shat down his driver's window from the air.

We tried swapping our cars around, but it could easily tell the difference and still had its daily bowel movement on DH's car. God knows what it was eating but some days his car looked like an elephant had shit on it. Privately, I thought the blackbird had invited all his mates to use his own private loo, but DH was paranoid that it was just The One. One day, DH and the blackbird got into a blinking contest when it hopped right up to our kitchen French doors and belligerently stared DH down. It was quite intimidating.

I was having lunch with my husband and 2 little girls on the seafront in Weston-super-Mare last week, and everyone had pretty much finished except me and had gone inside to use the loos. As I reached casually for my cheesy chips, 3 ENORMOUS gulls dive bombed them, took the contents of whole bowl between them (and this was a hearty West Country portion let me tell
you) and were then attacked by another band of 3 as they settled on the table to eat . I got smacked in the face by the wings of 2 different ones and it hurt!! They then had a big old rowdy fight over clumps of chips with more and more birds joining, so they moved into the road to continue the fight and got hit by a van who had no time to stop.

It was both epic and tragic at the same time and my daughters came back just in time to see them get hit by the van. So many tears!

They attacked and killed a pigeon in Liverpool recently

I’ll lend you my German Shepherds OP, one had become a tyrant in her old age, she’ll sort em for you.

I haven't forgotten seagull poo in BOTH eyes in West Looe. With acidic splatter all down the front of a really nice dress. Dress never was the same again and I'm truly grateful to the jolly nice pub landlady who let me rush into her loo and do emergency eye bath and face wash.