who's protecting people from seagulls
On a visit to Wick during Gala week, we were amazed about the lack of complaints that were made about the seagull situation.
We stayed in West Banks Terrace, and were subjected to repeated attacks, and dive-bombing, by the seagulls. We couldn’t walk down the street, during the great weather, without carrying an umbrella, to beat off these attackers. On one occasion, a black cat, at the bottom of the street, was almost carried away, when a seagull landed on its’ back. My brother had to seek shelter under a tree, and phone for his wife to pick him up in their car, to escape the attentions of more seagulls.
This behaviour is not confined to just West Banks, it happens all over town. The noise was tremendous, from first light to dark. The gulls were sitting on the roofs and chimneys up and down the street.
We were told these seagulls are ‘protected’. By whom, .. the Mafia? Surely something can be down, after all people should be ‘protected’ as well.
What are the council going to do about this menace? Probably, just sit on their hands.
who's protecting people from seagulls
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Originally Posted by
tiggertoo
you make at sound like a alfred hitchcock film i've watched, well exagirated as i've posted before in defence of seagulls, the blame lies at the hands of the fishermen who emptied the sea of there source of food so they have had to move inland to scavange for food to survive and for attacking they only think your a threat to there young, would you not protect your kids if you thought they were under threat, if this is all you have to moan about when there is more serious things happening in this world i think you should get a life,and the next time your stuffing your face with a fish supper just remember a seagull could o had that and you could o stuck till a sausage supper
I wasn't exagerating a bit, and unless the gulls kids were in the street, I wasn't even near a gull. I think they were doing it out of badness...also, tigger, you probably live out in the country where the biggest thing to cause you trouble would probably be a rabbit...scratching at your wheelie bin, no doubt..or perhaps, you're like Fran, encouraging them, by feeding them by hand...little wonder they won't go back to the cliffs, life's too easy on the streets of Wick...
who's protecting people from seagulls
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Originally Posted by
tiggertoo
well i'm always feeding seagulls and also have them swooping down past me but it doesn't bother me and i dont care if it is illegal ,it wont stop me feeding them we are all gods creatures and have the right to be on this planet, who are we as humans to say whether we can feed other gods creatures who only want to survive its our instinct ,us humans are the ones destroying this planet we live on and there are more of us that are a menace to society than to complain about a seagull who only wants to eat,we should live in a world where the lion can lay down with the lamb,and share our food with others that are not as fortunate as us,we are all gods creatures after all.
if that's the way you want it, why don't you stop wasting the food on scavengers, and give it to PEOPLE, who need food to eat,, do it for your fellow man...people tell me that pigeons are rats with wings..I wouldn't put seagulls much higher...apparently it's environmentalist who've ruined it for the gulls...when the fishermen were in wick harbour, gutting the fish, the seagulls had a good living, but when the environists put quotas on the fishing industry, the gutting is no more... so it's you do-gooders who've caused it.
