Seagulls - noisiest of all early morning bastard birds? Discuss

[DuckyMcDuck]

Lighthearted obviously!

Yes and they stamp about on the roof to add to the misery. They're big too, because they eat so many chips

Baby hanging about ..squawking on repeat like a cheap alarm from 4.30 am
Murder on my mind

It's bloody owls where we live. 4am this morning, I think Mum was teaching her babies to fly ...... piercing shrill sounds that woke the whole bloody house up.

I love owls, I really do but outside my window at that time?!? I feel like a zombie this morning.

Yes ! They also are surprisingly inland in coastal areas making a racket.
Plus central London here they use my street as a nursery flying school at around 2-5 am. Young birds flying up and down squawking with parents calling encouragement from the roof tops ! Is fun to watch for about one night. Lived here decades.

Yes! Feathery fuckers! Is it necessary to do all that 5am shrieking/squawking? No, it bloody isn't Steven Seagull.
And the stamping around on the roof full of chips - how can birds be so heavy-footed? And we have a baby on our roof who keeps pecking on the lift dormer windows.
They are the bain of my life...

Owls at night here. Screaming & hooting, the noisy bastards.

Seagulls are definitely worse though.

Hmmm I’m not sure I’d like to throw crows into the mix… we have hundreds and hundreds of them in the trees behind our house and they make that awful cawing noise. Mind you, they don’t stamp on the roof so maybe seagulls do have it?

Sparrows here, they are in nest boxes out the front but sit in the bushes shouting good morning to each other from about 5 am

Magpies and wood pigeons at some ungodly hour!
Magpies sound like they've got some weird machine gun from star wars

We have an army of crows in my street and a thick as shit cat who likes to tease them. It’s hell when they’re nesting.

Crows. Huge ugly screeching pointless bastard buggers. Hate them and their bastardry !!!

Seagulls are bastards. They stopped essential roofing work on my house as they were nesting on my chimney so I hate them (thankfully nesting season almost over!)

They squawk, shit all over my roof and dive bomb me in my garden - guess it is all part of living by the seaside but some days if I had a gun......

We have parakeets who hang out in a tree at the end of the garden. They make a high pitched bark/car alarm scream. Hate them.

I live on the coast and would have agreed with you until mad crows moved in last year. They seem demented, they fight sometimes to the death. The noise is awful and the feathers and bodies on the lawn are grim. They've also been known to dive bomb the windows, this also resulted in a messy death on one occasion. Some day I feel like I'm living in a horror film.

I've got seagulls nesting on the roof and competing with the magpies in the morning. Hard to say which are worse.

Next door neighbours have a tree in their back garden which is very close to our bedroom window. There's a pigeon which seems to be nesting in there. No vocal noises but it's bloody noisy when it crashes in and out of there.

At home its wood pigeons and magpies. Bloody noisy bastards, at work its seagulls and they're noisy bastards too. I think the worst is magpies just because they make such a horrible noise

Rooks get my vote. I honestly couldn't live in a house where the nearby trees harboured a rookery - the screeching/cawing at all hours is horrendous. I go cycling most mornings around 05:00, and regardless of the season or how dark it is, as I cycle towards the rookeries I can hear them shrieking from blocks away.

(Although I also agree about owls, we've had them being absurdly loud recently - right on our roof!)

I have witnessed seagulls doing their loudest shriek down people’s chimneys. Presumably for the amplifying effect, or just spite.

Absolute noisy feathery fuckers. I'm inland, piss off back to the coast and annoy people there. Oh and when we are on your territory leave our bastard pasties alone.

DD2's favourite joke used to be

• why do seagulls go inland?
• because they don't know they're called seagulls

She's here all week...

A seagull once swooped and stole a paper bag which had 2 large cheese and onion pasties (the last in the hit) in it and flew off. Heartbroken. In middle of very long walk and very hungry. Had just sat down on a rock. They are master thieves.

Seagulls are bastards.

I'm in Australia, so get the magpies yodelling in the night. And morning. They are lovely though.

The real pissers are possums thundering across the roof (steel) at night and waking my dog, whose life's mission is to kill them, but meantime contents himself with growling, pacing around the bedroom and waking me up.

Git.

Wood pigeons, pheasants and a fucking cockerel that I'm sure would make a beautiful roast dinner

Also foxes. Noisy fuckers.

The seagulls here aren't that bad. The god damn pigeon couple who live above my bedroom window on the other hand .......

What I don't understand about sea gulls is why, when they find a bit of food, do they summon every gull for miles around to come so they then have to fight them for said food. Are they stupid? Or do they like the aggro? Just like the sound of their own voice too much?