Seagulls.

[asterix]

There are no seagulls in the Limousin.

Sparrows
Blackbirds
Grey birds (with red tails)
Tits
Large woodpeckers
Medium woodpeckers
Small woodpeckers
Herons
Doves
Buzzards
Jays
Crows and/or Rooks
Cuckoos
Birds that make a strange whooping noise
Owls
Bats

but no seagulls.

 

[Keith Oates]

Don't see any where I'm currently working in Guangzhou, China!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Soltydog]

I live by the sea and we get surprisingly few of them round here

Same here. I'm a few hundred yards from the coast & very rarely see them here. Normally see them when farmers are out ploughing & that's about it.
Pop up the coast 3 miles to Hornsea & there's a few about there

 

[threebikesmcginty]

They've probably eaten them all!

Mmmmm sweet 'n' sour seagull...

 

[Fnaar]

My dad always used to say (back in the 1970s, possibly wearing a jumpsuit and chest wig) that when you saw seagulls inland, it meant there was a storm at sea. Little did he know it was actually part of a major change in the bird's social/feeding habits, indicative of the ease (for a seagull) of grabbing a bite to eat at the rubbish dump or outside the chippy, compared to actually catching a fish your flipping self, you lazy so-called-bird.

 

[theclaud]

I'd just like to warn everybody that it would be unwise to get drawn into a location gull-off. I am very likely to win. We even had one of these a few years back:

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Nasty looking bastard, tc.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

The gull that is, not you!

 

[theclaud]

Nasty looking bastard, tc.

I know but I'm nicer than I look. The gull, I think, is rather handsome. It's an Ivory.

 

[Aperitif]

threebirdsmcginty packs bag for jail as excuse is weak at best...

 

[661-Pete]

Birds that make a strange whooping noise

Hoopoes? We get those in the Lot, a bit further south. Seagulls? There must be some about, but not very noticeable.

Do you get Black Redstarts? Very common down south, they occupy the domestic ecological niche taken up by sparrows in the UK. Very distinctive call, they perch on rooftops and emit a sound rather like a ratchet clicking. Most un-birdlike. Unless your 'grey bird with red tail' means that, but the Black Redstart is more black than grey.

 

[Dayvo]

Albatross!
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrqW_BZu5Xk

 

[Dayvo]

Yep, plenty of the buggers here, but I'm only three km from the coast.

And far too many magpies, as well!

 

[theclaud]

Hmmm. If no one bites on any competitive gull stuff, I'll be obliged to do some work. If anyone has carried a live and digruntled herring gull on a bike, under one arm, for more than one-and-a-half miles, then they'll have found the chink in my armour...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Gullcentric competitions are obviously just a Swansea based recreation tc.