Seagulls, you either love or loath them

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Inspired by passive so I thought I'd start a thread about the little sods that blight my life.
AIBU to want to strangle them? (only kidding animal lovers)

I went of seagulls after one shat on my head just after I came out of the hairdressers.
We've got loads around here because we're on the coast but they're country bumpkin seagulls so don't have access to chips.
And crows are bastards as well. And pigeons. I like budgies though.

Seagulls, like pigeons are just opportunists. If we didn't leave rubbish and decaying food everywhere then these birds would seek sustainance elsewhere. We are to blame for large populations of these birds in our city centres.

...but I like gulls, so I'm a wee bit biased. Black Headed Gulls, Herring Gulls, Lesser Black Backed Gulls, Fulmars and Great Black Backed Gulls (which are gorgeous - they're massive and look like Albatrosses!) are all beautiful birds.

Stop this gull hatred!

clitoris - err, that feels quite wrong addressing you like that, what are those big ones with the orangey beaks that actually get bullied by the black headed gulls, they are my favourite.

LadyBeagle, one shat on the head of one of my neice's classmates on a school trip when she was in Y3. They all had to write a few lines about the trip the next day in class. Guess what the highlight was in almost every story

well said passive

I love 'em too - birds with attitude, brilliant - but I'm sorry - clearly most of them are called Eric (apart from the nesting pair on my roof, who evidently wear clogs and are called Ricky & Bianca. Last year they had 3 chicks but sadly only one got to adulthood) We live on the coast so comes with the short walk to the beach!

Not keen, especially those huge ones you get at ferry ports. You wouldn't get out of your car in a lion enclosure, just pay those big fuckers the same respect.

And they deliberately shit or puke on you as a defence/offence move.

It's where the word fulsome comes from - from fulmar - a species of seabird that has terrifyingly accurate and putrid aim.

Most people always think it's lavishness in a good way.

Yes BluddyMoFo, it works a treat. I've heard that birds can't fart and that bicarb inflates them and because they can't expel gas they blow up.

Usually the last word they say after eating bicarb on bread and flying away is "FFFFUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKK" .

So clitoris, are fulmars those big bastards that clunk about on the roof of your car at Dover and eye toddlers and small dogs speculatively?

Or are there other big bastards I should be afraid of? Apart from condors and golden eagles and pterydactyls, that is?

It's good to know your enemy.

passive You are the avian equivalent of mad cat lady!
clitoris well, so I know what the huge bastards are called but it still means
I hate the blighters. They stand quite a bit taller than my 16 mths old and look at her menacingly.
They crap on my car and appear to aim specifically at my large white towels drying on the line!
I once got my newborn summer baby out of her cot to feed her and realised she fast fast asleep and it was the seagulls who woke me.
They swoop down on you if you walk too close to their young ones who wander aimlessly around the roads (hey, if you want privacy for your young ones, go and nest on a cliff!)
Oh, and at the moment they wake me at 4.30 sharp every morning, even with the windows closed.

I love the sound of them. They remind me of moving back to my parents town after living down south away from them for many years.

I love the sound of them too. However I imagine if they woke me at 4am every morning in the summer I may not like the sound of them as much.
Maybe it's because i don't live near the sea that I love the sound of them!

I do however have Canada geese in the lakes behind my house and they wake me up, I quite like that noise too. Maybe I'm just mad

I love them. Except when I see them scavenging around landfill sites.

Dirty birds really.

oo and I do love canada geese

hate hate hate hate

especially the tap-dancing bastards on the roof of my caravan at 3.45am over half term

also hate wasps (terrified of them...)

don't mind pigeons. altho could live without them.

Love em - love the look of them, the noise of them

Here in Pompey there is virtually a seagull mafia. Huge, sweeping hordes of the enormous, fuck-off Herring variants strut around like they own the place; the bully-boys of gull society. They perch upon lamp-posts and dump their copious load on unsuspecting passers-by and then flap off lazily, smirking all over their smarmy yellow beaks.

The worst sight is at the end of break at school and all the children have returned to their classes (some already having been pooped on after a fly-by shitting.) The gulls descend upon the playground and gorge themselves on discarded sarnies, sausage rolls, fruit winders and Monster Munch. Christ knows what their cholesterol levels are.

They then do a bit more arrogant strutting about with the odd spot of noisy impromptu shagging, before poking off to shit all over someone's washing. Or freshly-washed car. Or child.

Another gull-hater her. Horrid, horrid birds, especially herring gulls.

We went on holiday to Isles of Scilly a couple of years ago and they very sensibly have signs up asking people not to feed or encourage the wretched things.

You gull-lovers who go feeding the horrible things are just making things worse. When DD was a toddler we went to Jersey and when we tried to picnic on the beach it was nearly impossible because some people fed the gulls so they just kept pestering everyone. We kept chasing them off but I turned my back for a split second and one of the b***ds rushed in and snatched the biscuit from DDs hand.

Rats with wings!

I had a pasty stolen out of my hand by one once. It swooped down from behind and grabbed it in its beak. I still quite like them though.

I ADORE seagulls, but they really need to be vindaloo to kill that fishy aftertaste; sweet-&-sour is pretty good too.

I love seagulls because their presence usually means I am somewhere near the sea! I live in the land-locked Midlands & absolutely love the sea so anything that reminds me of it is good in my book .

Funny really as I don't like any other birds .

I'm with netto, hate birds. All those beaks and claws. Ugh.

The aggressive ones are the worst. Can't decide whether I hate seagulls or owls the most. But just thinking about it makes my legs go all funny.

milliemae - i quite like pidgeon marinated in honey and cooked in coke, its blardy lovely, otherwise it just tastes dead iyswim. Be more meat on a seagull ;)