Killer Seagulls
Sam_Clarke1
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I've been 'dive-bombed' by gulls in Torquay but haven't heard of this before
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A dog owner was horrified to find her beloved chihuahua was pecked to death by a gang of angry seagulls.
Nikki Wayne, 57, had previously spotted the birds diving for five-month-old Bella and never let her pet play unsupervised outside her home in Honiton, Devon.
But the tiny dog managed to sneak out when the mother-of-five was in the shower after she left the back door slightly ajar.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3070426/Chihuahua-owner-horrified-beloved-puppy-pecked-death-gang-angry-SEAGULLS.html#ixzz3ZQi5rCnW
Scary
A dog owner was horrified to find her beloved chihuahua was pecked to death by a gang of angry seagulls.
Nikki Wayne, 57, had previously spotted the birds diving for five-month-old Bella and never let her pet play unsupervised outside her home in Honiton, Devon.
But the tiny dog managed to sneak out when the mother-of-five was in the shower after she left the back door slightly ajar.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3070426/Chihuahua-owner-horrified-beloved-puppy-pecked-death-gang-angry-SEAGULLS.html#ixzz3ZQi5rCnW
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I had one grab my head on Brighton Pier last year (I had been throwing some bread off the pier to them) shook me up I got to say.
Same with the pigeons down Trafalgar Square / Leicester Square.
I saw a magpie attack a fledgling blackbird last week. It's just part of nature, sadly. They do it to feed their themselves and their young, unlike humans.
They can issue permits to cull troublesome seagulls.
Living in Cornwall, gulls can be a pain at this time of year. Squawking at 5 am in the morning, ripping bags open and shitting all over the car. I don't usually wish them any harm though as a lot of their increase in numbers is down our laziness. They find it easier to scavange food inshore these days than hunting out to sea.
I did have to intervene a few years ago though when we were at the duck pond. My son (4 at the time) was horrified when a seagull he was feeding amongst the ducks, decided he didn't like bread and would rather eat one of the ducklings instead.:o. Thankfully a swift size 12 kick up the seagulls arse. And the seagull released the duckling and buggered off.
But drones are cheap nowadays, do I need a special licence to fit one with a cattle prod? Or a mini paintball gun as a WMD is tempting, though I think a large tub of paint might be tricky to get off the ground.
http://www.arkive.org/great-black-backed-gull/larus-marinus/video-08a.html
I'm really not in favour of killing things because they are inconvenient, or attracted by your mess and waste but if these Gulls were acting aggressively enough to worry this woman something should have been done.
The seagull have figured out that they can pick up a cockle, fly up into the air and drop them they'll be able to pick the meat out of the smashed shell.
They're even smart enough to have figured out that it doesn't work if they drop them on grassed areas, roads work okay but are dangerous and concrete pavements work best and are safe.
As a result of this, you have to be bloody careful when going for the morning paper or walking the dogs first-thing.
Yep, it's not uncommon.
It's pretty freaky (and fortunate) that they're smart enough to have realised that it's dangerous to use roads, though.
I come out of the house, in the morning, and cringe as I walk along the pavement, then breathe a sigh of relief if I get to the field un-bombed.
It was horrendous , the noise - a sickening noise tbh - I thought they were out to kill something.!😱
Smart or Darwin in action?;-)
Maybe they're the same thing? ;-)
I'm 5th century BC playwright Aeschylus and I say think yourself lucky it's not tortoises!
Be Afraid!
Swansea Jack seagulls - the most fiendish of all! ;-)
Or "crusty meat pies" as they're sometimes called.
Are there really birds who pick up tortoises to crack 'em open?
That certainly would be scary.
The Bearded Vulture or Lammergeier does. Its main food is bone marrow which again it will drop from a height to crack open, I suppose tortoises were a natural progression.
edit: or I'm thinking of a particularly cunning assassination attempt
edit2: or possibly both, combined...
Geese come a bit closer, close enough to touch, but don't cause an issue.
Seagulls sweep in and completely engulf him, squawking and flapping, scaring him enough to make him pee himself.
Absolutely horrible birds.
It's their mating season - they don't half make a racket when they're at it. I bet that's what they were doing ;-)