Bert Raccoon Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 51 minutes ago, carpetmonster said: Keith Flint’s let himself go Erm..... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted July 30 Author Share Posted July 30 (edited) 51 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said: I saw one being popped by a car. It was a strange mixture of crunching and bursting. I was glad and nauseated at the same time. I heard one getting crushed relatively slowly. A truly haunting high-pitched squak. The thing gambled, got it's foot trapped under the wheel of a slowly-reversing beeping van, and ended up as a white feathery pancake. Edited July 30 by Hedgecutter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 Shout out to my guy Toreno 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Tunbridge Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 (edited) How are so many of you losing food from your hand to a bird fs? Can honestly say that has never happened to me. One comes at me and I’ll punch its beak off, simple as. Edited July 30 by Scotty Tunbridge 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted July 30 Author Share Posted July 30 12 minutes ago, Scotty Tunbridge said: How are so many of you losing food from your hand to a bird fs? Can honestly say that has never happened to me. One comes at me and I’ll punch its beak off, simple as. They take you from behind. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 Grew up near the beach so some years they would nest on the roof and swoop you every time you came home or left. A good laugh. I took a photo of one checking itself out no long ago. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 10 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said: They take you from behind. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophia Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 3 hours ago, eez-eh said: Saw one swoop down to a shopping trolley and steal a packet of rolls from a woman outside Aldi, a few weeks back. Cocky wee b*****ds. There's one, I know it's the same one, I'd recognise it anywhere, that perches on the lamppost outside the Inches Aldi in Inverness. It stares from its vantage point and waits for a full trolley of shopping to emerge. The speciality involves waiting until the trolley is at the car boot and the shopper is distracted. A swoop and a steal of a newly purchased item is as inevitable as the ensuing rage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 53 minutes ago, Scotty Tunbridge said: How are so many of you losing food from your hand to a bird fs? Can honestly say that has never happened to me. One comes at me and I’ll punch its beak off, simple as. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 2 hours ago, Sergeant Wilson said: No, if he'd put a photo it might have sunk in. I did put a photo, so I win. Crows and magpies are great. I've suspended my feeding programme until I work out a way to feed them, but exclude pigeons. We don't have any gulls, but feral pigeons are driving me mad. I use ground cages to feed the smaller ones and exclude the pigeons, but they still feed on the seed falling from the hanging feeders due to the messy gold finches. I don't mind wood pigeons and collered doves, but hate the ferals with a passion. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee-Bey Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 STOP THE BIRDS 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alta-pete Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 Gulls, crows, pigeons, basically anything with a torso larger than your fist, can gtf as far as I’m concerned. They’re all bastirts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Tunbridge Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 59 minutes ago, Venti said: That’s clearly a bill not a beak. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanburn Dave Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 I remember being in Nairn and watching a big gull swallowing a dead eel that was over 2 feet long. Took it about 15 minutes to lift it, turn it and swallow it. Weird mix of amazing and disgusting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 I keep telling you, bring back anti-seagull headwear (as modelled by Otto here) There was a feature on gulls on the radio last week- they did an experiment with gull chicks and they showed a preference for fish rather than chips and other shite that the adult gulls go for. It's like if we didn't over-extract their natural foodstuff through intensive fishing and didn't leave a ready source of food about for them in the form of discarded pizzas etc they wouldn't bother. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Diego De la Vega Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 There is a boy on our ship that is like a gull whisperer, he somehow has the ability to catch them in his hands and likes to throw them into a shipmates cabin to wake them up our leave them as a surprise for someone coming off watch, not sure who is worse him or the gulls. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMMjag Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 I would only support a national cull of seagulls if there was an agreement to replace them with an equal amount of ostriches. God I'd love to have a few million ostriches running around all over the place. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted July 31 Author Share Posted July 31 4 hours ago, AMMjag said: God I'd love to have a few million ostriches running around all over the place. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 12 hours ago, Scotty Tunbridge said: That’s clearly a bill not a beak. Name's Daffy not Bill. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velo army Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 18 hours ago, Scotty Tunbridge said: How are so many of you losing food from your hand to a bird fs? Can honestly say that has never happened to me. One comes at me and I’ll punch its beak off, simple as. They're bigger and smarter up here. The ones in the central belt are tiny in comparison. Greggs changed their wrappers up here as the seagulls had learned that big blue square=food. Seagulls will fly at you from behind and land on your head, causing you to drop your piece. It won't happen if you're prepared, but unsuspecting tourists or freshers will blithely eat a sandwich walking down the street unaware of the Hitchcockian scene in which they're about to participate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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