Had enough of the seagulls in this area. We have moved to a house which is a chalet style which means that it has two flat roofs either side of the house over the two main bedrooms.
When we first moved in December 2004, we met our neighbours (elderly couple) who seemed really nice and friendly. A few days later we are talking to them and they say "I hope you don't mind the seagulls..we started to feed them 8 years ago and they have adopted us as their parents " Ahhhh..how sweet I thought at the time. It is now August and they are driving us mad, they had babies over 2 months ago and they are now flying, but are still whinging an whining to their parents to fed them all the time. Not only this, but they wake us up every morning at about 5.00am and start running around our flat roof and pecking at our felt roofing..dirty bastards!! We don't need an alarm clock anymore as we have them. Sounds like a poor tap dancing Gene Kelly on our roof!!
We have been contemplating what we can do about them. We have searched the local council website and apparently you can not kill them but you can feed them!! I was so shocked.. they are flying rats, vermin and need to be destroyed...exterminated...they need to decease to be!
Next time we see our neighbours we will have to ask them to stop feeding them as they are producing offspring every year and our rooftops in our area are full of their nephews and neices. You can probably map out a seagull family tree, starting from our neighbours seagulls.
We have tried throwing stones at them to get them off our rooftop..but that leads to a scene out of the Hitchcock film "The Birds" we get surrounded and swooped on by the whole mob.
Rat poison is the way to go, wrapped in mackrel. heh heh heh That'll sort the pesky so and so's out
Think I will have to throw my RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) membership card and pack away. I don't think I'm worthy anymore.