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I woke up this morning to find a HUGE Black Back Gull chick in my garden, fledged but unable to fly out of the walled garden due to its huge wingspan and the surfiet of plants. Every time I tried to catch it, it dived into the undergrowth. It ended up staying there all day much to the disgust of the whippies :rant: . I planed to leave all the gates open overnight so that it could get out tonight.

I was just finished ironing at 7pm and went into my bedroom to put things away only to be met by squalks. The bird had casually walked through the house and was exploring my bedroom (w00t) . I closed the door, threw a blanket over it and escorted it off the premisis to the park across the road o . I cannot get over the size of the thing. Its beak was fully 3" long and it was the size of a fully grown cat :x

Marvelllous guard dogs I have, it must have walked right past them :wacko: :teehee: :teehee:

 

[whippetsrus]

Sorry I know I should not laugh but that is hilarious.

 

[littlenell]

Id have died of fright! Im not keen on birds after watching Alfred Hitchcock :lol:

 

[Nicola]

Wow....would have loved to have seen some photos of it :teehee:

 

[Janimal]

:lol: they are quite cheeky bold things Gulls... :lol: ...yes pictures would have been good...

 

[eve]

One of my B&B guests took a picture of it in the garden.

I did not stop for my camera when it was in my bedroom :unsure: I just wanted it out before it left me an unpleasant present from either end.

:sweating: :teehee: :sweating: :teehee:

 

[AnnSa]

Must admit my mate and me stood in town last week watching a gull swoop on everyone

that went near her baby which for some reason couldn't fly. In fact we laughed till we

cried but to be honest those mums are pretty fierce so your lucky mum didn't come in

your house with it :blink:

 

[jinnyfizz]

Gulls are lovely when they're out at sea where they should be, but they're a pain in the butt when they are inland!!

My mum lives near the harbour in Plymouth and the squawking noise is unbelievable at 4am ........ and they wreck everything by nesting in chimney pots and hanging out on the roofs (w00t)

 

[bertha]

That's such a funny story!!!!! Having had experience with gulls when we lived at Porthtowan, they would dive bomb you when they had chicks. A friend made the mistake of feeding a chick, when it grew up she had to walk with an umberella up because it would mob her for food!!!!!!!

They are a pain and stupid tourists will feed them. I have seen them whip a pasty out of someones hand, very alarming to watch. Plus the racket they make.

The sea and cliffs is where they belong.

 

[oakmoorehill]

We stayed at Tanya's a few weeks ago and slept in her caravan. We took the twins with us and Simba was going mad a 4am the first night because a gull was walking up and down the roof of the caravan making a right flipping racket.

We get them here in Staffordshire but they tend to stay around the incinerator and stay away from people.

 

[wilfred]

I tolerate gulls but get a bit fed up of them, specially at this time of year...

We have some herring gulls nesting on our roof; they've never caused a problem to us by dive-bombing (however the racket they make up there is something else! and every time we have heavy rain I dread leaks coming through the roof caused by whatever they do up there .. no leaks yet but surely one day my luck will run out (w00t) )

However we live in a little seaside town in NE England and the gulls are steadily colonising further and further inland away from the sea and the cliffs; they only moved to our road 15 years ago but they are here to stay (apparently).

The main problem I have is walking the dogs in town and the gulls dive bombing us ... I have a bit of a phobia about it and they are very large and can actually cause a bit of damage when they catch you. Only last Saturday I was returning from walking through town with one of my dogs, congratulating myself on being very brave and then got to the corner of our road, to hear that awful warning screech, the hovering overhead and then the repeated low diving coming towards my face. I hate it!! I do like birds but I am sick to death of herring gulls, and when I see tourists feeding them "because they're so cute" I want to ask them, "do you feed rats as well?" They're scavengers and opportunists too, like herring gulls!

They can live for up to 30 years and householders can legally cull them (DEFRA lists herring gulls as pests, and black-backed ones too, I think) but if you did, other gulls would then move into the now-vacant "nesting site" and start all over again.

At least "our own" roof gulls are friendly towards us and our dogs!! I hate to harm any animal but privately I think herring gulls are a damned nuisance.

 

[olismum]

Sorry I know I should not laugh but that is hilarious.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHA thats sooooo true! But how annoying. My lurcher bitch is only 13months old atm and did a nice live to hand retreive on a gull chick that walks up and down the green outside our house it cant fly either! Poor dog couldnt understand why i was running away lol. I didnt want the chicks mum to see her with the gull lol silly lurcher lol bless her

 

[Lal]

Id have died of fright! Im not keen on birds after watching Alfred Hitchcock :lol:

I'm SO pleased it's not just me!! I've had a phobia ever since my older sister made me watch THAT film with her!! I'd have died of fright too!!

 

[Nicola]

The main problem I have is walking the dogs in town and the gulls dive bombing us ... I have a bit of a phobia about it and they are very large and can actually cause a bit of damage when they catch you. Only last Saturday I was returning from walking through town with one of my dogs, congratulating myself on being very brave and then got to the corner of our road, to hear that awful warning screech, the hovering overhead and then the repeated low diving coming towards my face.

Heck...that sounds like quite an ordeal! To think I occasionally get a bit irritated by our local swallows/housemartins who do flight manouvres along the back terrace of our cottages, dive bombing you or the washing hanging out as they go (I was hit by a huge, runny blob of poo on my shoulder recently too!). That's nothing in comparison!

 

[bertha]

They sound like they have hob nailed boots on when they walk on the roof. We have jackdaws and magpies jumping up and own on our roof, plus they will "plink" the TV aerial that crosses the roof. Wonderful. :wacko: