Seagulls, you either love or loath them

[katvond]

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 love them too. they remind me of home.

I likes them and I feeds them. DD gave one a chocolate ice cream this weekend, it swallowed it whole then nearly fell over with the brain freeze. You can't buy that kind of entertainment .

I think we'd miss scavenger birds if they weren't around tbh. They're the Kim and Aggie of the skies.

I love them too. You can get them to dive for food you throw up into the air and you can see right into their eyes.

They sing like the sea.

I like gulls but nothing winds me up as much as seeing someone feed them their chips!!!! Seriously want to throw them in the sea. Not only does it encourage the gulls to come close to people eating, they then get brave and start pinching peoples food out of their hands (very frightening to child). The more this happens the more likely that the local council will decide upon another mass cull.

Basically feeding the gulls at the seaside leads to their ultimate destruction :(

DO NOT FEED THE GULLS!!!

I bloody hate them, I have six circling my house taunting a damaged redtail hawk at the moment, when the hawk is fixed they had better watch out, she will seek revenge.

Seagulls are shitehawks and I hope global effing warming sends them all off to Afghanistan.

Great thread.

Where have all the fulmars gone btw? My parents' home (NE Scotland) used to pullulate with them, then one year they were gone and have not returned.

I'm not a big fan since 1 shat on my chicken nugget.

However I did have a laugh at the weekend on the beach when friend was throwing her DD's crusts for them and they were hovering, then swooping in.

(ps sorry teacup I know you don't like it)

Thats the thing teacup dont feed them, we have signs all over ST Ives where I live but people keep feeding them then they start stealing food from you. The birds are not to blame it us humans

DP hates them - they have a tendancy to attack him when he's out running, and being attacked by a mad mummy seagull isn't fun.

I love seagulls. This is the first time in my life that I haven't lived on the coast and I really miss their cry, especially first thing in the morning. I now have a pair of collared doves to wake me... lovely, but they're not telling me I can walk to the beach before breakfast.....

my dad told me that sailors turn into seagulls when they die, I like them but they are quite meanacing when they are after yr lunch though!

I'm not talking about feeding chips to seagulls at concrete seafronts with half-eaten burgers hanging out of open-top bins which attract them in the first place.

More like watching a few gulls up close on a coastal cliff top, listening to their cries in the cold air, me huddled up in a warm coat, prepared to give up a piece of ham out of my sandwich into the wind in order to see one of these creatures' aerobatics up even closer.

Seagulls clear up all the fish guts from the water around smaller fishing boats and coastal anglers. That's a real service.

But no-one should be feeding seagulls or pigeons in cities and towns. So agree with Teacup there. They overpopulate and 'measures' then have to be taken.

Never been bothered by swooping seagulls, though. Must have been brought up tough. All that salty air and rock climbing.