Seagulls.

[threebikesmcginty]

Hardly a challenge. 3BM gave his up after three swoops and a bit of chirrupping from a sparrow...

You should have seen the menacing look in his beady eyes though *shudder*

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Bernie Clifton is on his way down to see you, tc - be afraid, be very afraid...

 

[Fnaar]

I saw a Cormorant this morning. Obviously not a gull.
But an interesting bird associated with the sea (a bit like *insert name of well-known female sailor here*)

But I saw it on a river.

 

[theclaud]

Bernie Clifton is on his way down to see you, tc - be afraid, be very afraid...

Ha! On his way down to see you, don't you mean? Only one of us will be in Wales this weekend...

I'm sure you two will have a lovely time...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I've got a special welcome for that bastard...

 

[Pottsy]

I stopped on a bike ride to untangle two pigeons tangled in fishing line with a mad bag lady early one morning on the Thames just recently. She was holding them and accosted me to help her by removing her car keys from her jacket pocket and getting the pair of scissors out that she had in her glove compartment. It was, all in all, quite a surreal experience.

Sorry, not gulls again though.

 

[theclaud]

I stopped on a bike ride to untangle two pigeons tangled in fishing line with a mad bag lady early one morning on the Thames just recently. She was holding them and accosted me to help her by removing her car keys from her jacket pocket and getting the pair of scissors out that she had in her glove compartment. It was, all in all, quite a surreal experience.

Sorry, not gulls again though.

Bag ladies have cars?

 

[Pottsy]

A Vauxhall Nova in this case, yes.

 

[mcshroom]

We have hundreds of gulls (herring and common) all round here, and some of them are (mildly) radioactive

 

[Ravenbait]

Even Lake Baikal, which must be about as far from the sea as it's possible to get on this planet has sea birds

It also has two species of seal, one of which isn't found anywhere else. And a lot of Romanov gold. And a massive, nasty, toxic papermill. And a submarine.

Sam

 

[addictfreak]

I live in coastal area so there are plenty here, inland it mainly seems to be the larger herring gull and they are big beggars.

 

[asterix]

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.

Yup, that's the one. It is a bit grey.

 

[cookiemonster]

Our seagulls need ASBO's.

They are vicious.

 

[Arch]

There must be town-living seagulls who never get to see the sea... possibly. Perhaps we should rename them...

No need. There is no such thing as a seagull. There are many varieties of gull, including Herring, Lesser and Greater Black Backed, and Black Headed, but no Sea Gull.

Plenty of gulls round my way, mostly Black Headed, which are common across the whole country.

 

[psmiffy]

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.