Black backed gulls

[JohnGalway 1,043]

 

On my way home from the city today, traveling behind slow moving traffic. I noticed a young lamb in a field, the ewe was looking very disturbed looking left and right constantly. Only then did I notice two black backed gulls, one either side of her. Feckers, wish I had one of the guns with me We have trouble with them from time to time ourselves.

[langouroux 14]

never seem any issues with the cornish gulls down here mate...and they are MASSIVE! fecking tourists feeding them all the time!

[JohnGalway 1,043]

Site from New Zealand http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/gulls-terns-and-skuas/1

 

Glad ye don't have any problems with them, they're a huge bird alright!

[Malt 379]

never seem any issues with the cornish gulls down here mate...and they are MASSIVE! fecking tourists feeding them all the time!

 

Tell me about it buddy..

 

A few summers ago, I walked past some dull woman and her son on one of the many benches in town, feeding the shitehawks chips. She said to her son as I walked past, "That's right lad, give the ducks a few chips..."

 

Idiots! I've also seen holidaymakers feeding them scraps from their plates in pub beer gardens, all smiles & laughs until one of the dirty great big fuckers jumps on the table and starts flapping it's wings at them, squawking and calling all it's mates over for a feed off their plates..

 

Funny for us locals mind you!

 

What they don't realise, is these birds then go down to the beaches and peck at kids to try to get at whatever they're eating, I've even had one fly down to my garden and try to nick a sarnie off one of my kids when they were little....

 

Anyway, sorry for ranting on your thread JG, the gist of what I'm saying is the only good seagull is a dead fecker!

Edited March 18, 2010 by maltenby

[JohnGalway 1,043]

Rant away Malt, better out than in

[Malt 379]

Cheers John, but I'd be here all night! The joys of living in a small rural town with a winter population of 5,000 that becomes 50,000 in the height of summer!

Edited March 18, 2010 by maltenby

[saxosportsaxo 2]

Cheers John, but I'd be here all night! The joys of living in a small rural town with a winter population of 5,000 that becomes 50,000 in the height of summer!

 

I'll second that......... !

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Make the most of any culling as they are about to be put on the new licensing system run by Natural England.

[Malt 379]

Make the most of any culling as they are about to be put on the new licensing system run by Natural England.

 

I've just been reading a thread about them in the air rifle section. The greater & lesser black backed, and herring gulls are still on the list as far as Wales is concerned, we've a different licence. They'd be mad to take the herring gull off it in Wales, Cardiff alone has the second highest population of them anywhere in the world. They are a constant menace anywhere they are present in numbers, especially when they're breeding.

[RicW 67]

Oh terribly sorry officer. I thought it was a lesser black backed. Now it's been spread across the landscape by my 17gr HMR I realise that you have no chance of proving it one way or t'other.

 

Living, as I do, on the coast, I really dislike seagulls. As a matter of interest they taste DISGUSTING.

 

Ric