Shooting seagulls: how Natural England has got it wrong
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Natural England is not giving out gull licences this year or last. As a result, gulls are eating more than usual numbers of rare groundnesting birds, they are nesting in commercials buildings and causing a fire risk, and it's going to be a bumper summer for them attacking seaside holidaymakers.
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I love birds, but pesky - territorial - spiteful - disgusting seagulls make it difficult for me to feed the smaller birds. I think the general public will eventually fight back despite what the law says.
Yep
Don’t blame the gulls, blame the people who feed them. Remember that humans are the reason they are so aggressive, they now associate humans with food and are being more aggressive because of that
A fking flying rat that is.
One morning I took a shower and got ready for an appointment and wore a nice fit.
When I was walking all of a sudden something hard hit me and I thought I got clocked by a rock. Looked up and this fucking rat was laughing at me. It was standing ontop of a lightpost and took a shit on me and rocked my shit. I’ve never wanted to delete an entire species more than in that single moment when it was just staring at me laughing. Ever since then, I’ve done everything to make life tougher for seagulls.
guartanteed the people making these decisions are not being bothered by seagulls at all in their lives and don't even care that for most, the gulls are an absolute blight on this country.
What a load of Bollocks ....seagulls are not a blight ....and if it weren't for humans emptying the seas of the sea birds food ..then they wouldn't spend so much time on land ....the truth is blogs like this by the shooting fraternity are just trying to justify killing wild animals that naturally prey on others ....and if those advocating the killing of wildlife were physiological analysed most of you on here would lose you gun licences ....because you clearly have a lust to kill and people like that are only one step away from killing another human
I’m in the midlands working in a rural area, massive influx of gulls recently
Which is completely normal for the midlands..
Gulls always come here during the winter months
I do realise that gulls are just living their lives but it's like gang warfare. I want a pet hawk.
I’m a life long birder. These Larids are pest species and should be controlled. Feeding pests should be made illegal, whether they are Magpies or large gulls.
I’d still be popping away regardless!!
The fools like packam don’t see or want to se the damage these gulls are doing
None so blind as them as WON'T see....
Packham is no fool. He is a fully paid up eugenicist and communist. He knows exactly what he is doing.
Packham should be forced to bring his film crew to a field as it is being harvested, while the seagulls are gulping down stomachs full of voles, fieldmice and grass snakes.
The herring gull is a red listed species idiot. They aren’t doing any damage. ITS BECAUSE WE STUPID HUMANS KEEP FEEDING THEM
@@theotheseaeagle the herring gull is a red listed species in parts of europe not the uk.
Bloody things wake me up at 5am every day not fun
me too! that's detrimental to mental and physical health but do they care? no
We had the same issue here in Denmark some years ago. The hunting community wanted to legalise suppressor/silencers for firearms. The nature protection groups wanted something in return.
They got a specific ban on .50BMG and no more hunting season for gulls.. After 3 or 4 years, they had to open up for shooting gulls again, as they take a lot of eggs and young birds from other birds, and some urban areas they life in large numbers. Their constant noise and escrements are a health hazard.
@Thomas Power Ha ha:-) I don't know if anybody shot seagulls with 50BMG.. But I would love to see the result... No, I think it was the negotiation between nature protection groups and hunting community. they opened up for legal use of suppressors, and in return they banned 50BMG for hunters.. I think only 7 or 8 people owned one..
I've got nesting seagulls above my house about 10 mile inland and i get swooped on and attacked whenever I leave the house, I'm strongly considering buying an air rifle and taking care of them myself
They're literally everywhere, i too have nesting gulls all around me, they wake us up very early hours, we no longer see small birds around here because of the gulls and further more, my neighbours either side feed them at least 4 times a day. They crap all over our washing and swoop down to protect their young whenever we go out and I've hinted and then outright mentioned the issues and all i get from one neighbour is "oh, they never poo on our washing", absolutely imbeciles. Trust me, if i could get away with it, I'd shoot each and every one of them
Myself, my wife, my 3 year old daughter and my dog have all been attacked in our own front garden, by herring gulls nesting behind our chimney. They return year after year, every year, and we are forced to put up with it because we can't shoot them.
Our vehicles also get defecated on every day and its really taking its toll on us. Shame on those who force this restrictive legislation upon us. We should have the right to feel safe and comfortable in our own homes!
And gulls should be able to live their lives! People are idiots. It’s feeding them that’s causing this! And if you don’t want them being there then chase them off whenever you see them and campaign to get rid of rubbish pits which are what causes their population booms 🙄
@@theotheseaeagle how am I supposed to chase seagulls off my chimney, exactly?? We don't feed them, ever. We're not idiots. What do you propose we do?
@@Fizeeek throw rocks at them, or put up anti-bird spikes on top of your roof??
@@theotheseaeagle I have already put spikes up there but they still come. I'm not throwing rocks up there, what if I miss and it lands on the next door neighbour's child's head! Think about your answers before making silly suggestions.
@@Fizeeek also I never said YOU feed them, I said SOME people feed them. That’s why there’s signs saying “Don’t feed the Gulls or get fined”. Maybe you could promote something like that in your area if you live in a coastal area??
The reintroduction of white tailed eagles will keep this numbers down as white tails are their primary predator
Herring gulls should be labelled a pest species and should be allowed to be culled
I can't agree more. I definitely see more gulls than any other species combined in Norwich industrial areas.
I live in a small estate near Ayr SW Scotland. Moved here 14 years ago and never saw a magpie now they are nesting in various places.
Hello from along the road nearer Glasgow, sounds like it's time for the trap!
And your point is ?
@@bigglesbiggles4999 perhaps his point is......whatever changes that have occured in the area (habitat loss, residential developments etc) have favoured species like the magpie and now they'll have a detrimental effect on species like song birds?
@@jamiemcdougall8365 nature left to its own devices...and predation is a part of that process as unpleasant as it maybe, magpies do to a degree predate other birds...but they have far less impact than mankind does on song birds ....they are shot at by the Mediterranean gunners, if they are lucky to survive that then when they arrive here their food supply has been massively eradicated by farmers using insecticides....and then there's the domestic cats which kill approximately 70 million birds and small mammals annually...so really the impact of the corvids is pretty minimal...in comparison to the impact of man ...those advocating shooting corvids also fail to realise the benefits they bring in the natural world plus those advocates really give me the impression they have a blood lust for killing
@@bigglesbiggles4999 I agree with most of that. The only thing I would question is that nature isnt really left to it's own devices because we are constantly meddling in it and changing the playing field for species, but I guess you could argue that we are part of nature too and whatever changes we drive then that is "natural" too.
On the topic of a lust for killing (talking about animals, not humans ofcourse), I think a lot of humans have an innate ability to kill. Harsh as that sounds but humans have evolved by killing to survive, both killing animals that would predate them and killing for food. I'm not sure people like or enjoy it but I think they are almost hardwired to do it. I guess it comes naturally for some perhaps.
I was on the coast today enjoying a pasty when a seagull stalked me, then tried to grab the whole thing out of my hand, I punched it away. I then moved somewhere else and the little twat followed me, clawed me in the face (caused injury) and snatched the pasty, bag and all. Tell me why I can’t beat the living shit out of this aggressive bird?
The gulls are always dive bombing people at work, everyone is terrified of them. Their are way too many of them inland, hopefully they will go on the pest list.
They won't. They are lovely birds.
@@Edinwildlifetog they are vermin on the same level as rats
@@hhe5218 They're not.
@@Edinwildlifetog you're a moron.
give them food and they will be your friend, it works !
This is a wide spread problem. I have lived in Germany, Norway and Denmark and authorities simply do not care about it. What I find unbelievable is that small birds have completely gone extinct from Northern European cities because they are being eaten by gulls. Nobody bats an eye. It is excruciating to see.
For all the bad things regarding US policies, especially crow season, we are allowed to protect our property from predation and damage.
Don't see the problem really. Just shoot the damn things, but make sure no-one sees . . .
See you in court
Warning: incompetent pen pushers at work.
Not incompetent they know exactly what there doing
Same as m8 seagulls r here for a reason I also feed them , human race is th problem , control the human race , some humans just love something to kill , anything that annoys some people has to b controlled killed , they actually clear up a lot of our shit ,
The village I live in has a warehouse on the outskirts .At night ,a couple of thousand of the bloody things roost on the roof ,nest and create havoc in the surrounding farmland .People afraid to walk near nests this time of year for fear of getting attacked .Numbers need thinning and the birds want putting on general license .Well said sir .
Foxdropper free pest service I wish there were more birds nesting in my garden, I wish I had rooks, they’re beautiful
Nexim -The reason you don’t have many birds nesting in your garden is a combination of habitat and pest species such as magpie and crow plus rats and grey squirrels .Rooks are very benign in the scheme of things but do do damage to freshly germinating corn .Read comments below about pest control and why it’s essential .
Then don’t go near their nests then! Simples
@@theotheseaeagle Yep just avoid shopping that will do it ,snowflake wannabe Packham think alike .
@@foxdropperfreepestservice7324 your clearly a dumb arse. There are other shops unless your village is super remote or you have to go out of the village to shop like in my village.
And a cull just wouldn’t work, their numbers have declined by 70% since 1970 and are continuing to decline. A cull now would be disastrous for the species, but of course it’ll just be another animal the shooting community can add to the species they have eradicated from our shores. Some people can be really delusional
I live 50 miles from the coast and we now have Gulls here. Packham is a ??? I for one won't watch spring watch now or any program with him in it.!
It’s because of habitat loss you blithering idiot
@@haroldinho9930 Habitat loss ?
Coastal cliffs are their habitat.
The reason they are moving inland is for easy pickings from human activity.
The demise of the British fishing industry after the EU factory ships took over the water around our coast, meant no trawlers, no food, for the gulls.
So they moved inland and have successfully
adapted to life ashore, scavenging like rats.
A pair of gulls nesting on a rooftop opposite to my house, have already reared two chicks and are breeding again, this pair have nested in this spot for three years, and have successfully reared eight young.
They will eat anything that moves.
They even mimic the Blackbird's, rapid stomping on the ground to catch worms.
And they defecate indiscriminately in flight,
fouling buildings, cars, and sometimes people, myself included.
The number of gulls urban areas need to be controlled.
Packham, in my opinion, is a titty lipped, whingeing, narcissistic, attention seeking prat.
PJ Smoggy “scavenging like rats” you do know they eat rats and mice too right? And don’t bring brexit into this, brexit was a terrible idea, even the people who started it say so
And they lived on beaches too, until the humans came, with their coastal cities and plenty of food like ice cream
So they took it.
Now that’s their food source, instead of fish, oh and with the rise of cities plenty of rats came
@@haroldinho9930 as I said, they'll eat anything that moves.
I, will have my opinion on Brexit, you are obviously a remoaner, you have a bigoted opinion, on the EU, and your whining has, become irrelevant.
there'll always be an Enland and England shall be free if England means as much to you as England means to me#
Packham is a titty lipped narcissistic whinging wet flannel.
His face is cringe worthy 😖
Gulls are a nightmare across the UK, I've witnessed them taking ducklings from the local pond and only 1 of 8 ducklings survived past about 6 weeks. (Also this was miles and miles inshore well over an hour to the nearest coast) they raid bins everywhere and are a general pain in the backside...
Ohh so gulls are evil just because the eat ducklings... and you don't eat lamb
Just shoot the bloody things. I agree that they are a pest and should be classified as vermin.
@@richardbourne6743 and what make you qualified to make that decision?
@@bigglesbiggles4999 = Leftie plonker,
@@bigglesbiggles4999
There may still be some lambs left, if the corvids haven't eaten there eyes and tongues out.
When you've seen it happen, its not pleasant.
Gulls are like a carpet on my peninsula.
They need sea....culling😂
Oh good grief
Stop now you monster
Ill tel you where they are in my bloody fish pond.
The responsibility of creating these modern day pterodactyls = our overly greed by food convenience and our lazy ways when it comes to properly dealing with our food waste . Simple as.
EXACTLY!
I live in Kings Lynn, where a lot of this is filmed. Working by the fishing fleet is a nightmare, this time of the year. Our site was locked down, as were many. When I returned, the gulls, and pigeons had run wild, with no disturbance.
I control the feral pigeons, but the gulls eggs were under contract to a local company. Three visits during nesting season, used to see around 400 to 500 eggs taken, with air rifle, each visit.
This year the bloody little dodos are everywhere. The adult birds are attacking our staff for walking across the yard.
Chris Packham should be made to live amongst the filthy sky rats, to see how he likes it.
Rant over.
He'd love it!!
What the fuck? Dodos were extinct a long time ago, ever heard “dead as a dodo”, and pidgeons are so colourful, green, grey, purple and blue, I love watching them in the morning, and I REALLY love seeing a hooded crow
@@haroldinho9930 ni shit sherlock, its just an expression
Why do we need a licence from some body elected by and peopled by space cadets ? Every year I have to actively protect young birds (Ducklings, Dipper, and Wagtails) from repeated attack from gulls right outside my front door and my youngest son was attacked by a gull snatching a pastie resulting in 5 stitches being inserted in his right hand.
george waite I had nest obove my flat ,omg I got attacked daily , terrified I was, gone now !
Was just fishing down my local lake and saw a seagull attack a female mallard and snatch a duckling and ate it, so now I want to blast a few with an air rifle and that’s why I’m here🙂
A seagull ate someones dog (chiwuawa) thats yet again another reason why they should get shot with live rounds
@Mac Toirdealbhaigh You don't even know what 'fittest' means in that context do you, you spastic.
I got attacked by one of these things earlier and it cut the top of my head. Horrible things
@albert fish I see you everywhere under hate comments about gulls and it disgusts me.
Pity it didn't take your eyes out.
@@artvandelayRFC ikr
We shooters can discuss these idealist left wingers like Natural England as much as we like but they and their allies are a very powerful force which makes them dangerous ,very dangerous to the sport of shooting..The problem also is that people listening to them who know no different start to believe what they say..Worrying times especially as they seem to get full backing from the BBC...
The B B C actively promotes these communist stooges deliberately.
The BIASIST BRAINWASHING CORPORATION
I no longer watch wildlife programmes on the BBC or Countryfile,hopefully people who care about Conservation do the same as myself.
One magpie survival means four hundred songbirds eggs, six hundred squabs and nestling small birds will be eaten by this pest. And the only way of stopping them is termination, they are descriminating preditors. Songbirds thrushes especially are victims.
Me neither but they will not care..The BBC or Biased Broadcasting Corporation are left wingers,idealists brainwashing people who do not know any different.
I live in Berwick Upon Tweed I cannot even go out in my back garden with out being swooped by seagulls and have had a couple of injuries mainly fingers being nipped when I put my hands up to save my head and face 🤬
Thanks for this. Please can you write to Boris about this, and copy the letter to me? Fcha.nl/writetoboris - thanks. / Charlie
Sounds like a you problem if I’m honest mate
Here in my state it's not illegal to kill anything, if you have enough money
Sounds good to me
Common sense being overruled by city life politics.
It is sad that it has begun to be a trend around europe. In Finland we suffer for wolfs killing our pets and cattle and gooddamn greylag goose destroys our crops, but liberal politicians won't do anything and EU keeps pumping money to police for anti poaching units, in the time that our police has no resources to investigate thefts or other minor crimes
One thing i know for sure that finnish hunters and people in countryside doesn't take this shit for much longer, and then the laws of wilderness become true, and then the game is not fair to those hated species
@@karelianguy9917 i think that wolves are a bit to important to risk culling them (maybe its my us brain) but for gesse i say just make a scarecrow with a gun
They make life miserable,I'm sick of them in my area..some fool in my building feeds them daily they started to nest on roof tops now,my windows are crapped up everyday by them,I'm sick of their screeching.. he's been told to stop feeding them but won't listen..I'm sick to my back teeth.
They’ve nested ,layed and young feathered at this stage !! This vid should have been uploaded in March !
They are a bloody nuisance along with magpies, do gooders, you must really dislike songbirds, ever seen magpies when they find a smaller birds nest, It's nature ? Okay, it would be my nature to stop it happening, touche.
Waste transfer stations in the middle of urban industrial estates is a big problem too
In 45 years never been attacked by a seagull, 3 weeks ago i had a break away in Brighton and within 3 hours of being there i was biting into a burger and got smacked in the face and robbed of my burger, it also left a 2 cm cut on my face. I hope they get a cull soon.
next time take a tennis racket with you . hit the bastard. because believe you me, i would do it. i have a horse ranch here in the states and i kill them or our beautiful birds of prey get the twats
Maybe cull the people who feed them, that’s the reason they get so aggressive don’t get angry at the gulls, this is a man made problem
Seagulls are the modern scourge; and need deling with. It is a shame that parent do not buy their sons air rifles any more!
The arguments going to be like the cormorant - we ruin their environment (over-fishing at sea). Hence, they come inland. But, yes I agree something needs to be done with large gull colonies like that. Problem is, is it too late?
No they aren't....humans are the scourge
Biggles Biggles in that case you know what to do, right? After all, if you wanna change the world, you have to start with yourself, isn’t it? Well, if you want to remove the human scourge...by all means, go right ahead.
@@billiebleach7889 clearly you can't read words in the context that they have been written or choose to misinterpret to fit your argument, go play with the fairies!
As one of our american cousins said, shoot, shovel, and shut up
Same with magpies, saw them this week working a hedge in the garden parents throwing out sparrow chicks for the young ones.
They have had a free picking since the licensing fiasco, then lockdown, next year will be a bumper crop.
I agree entirely my family go to great lengths to draw song birds into the garden so we can enjoy seeing them only to see a clan of corvids kill them all......
Phil Kennedy If you leave enough food for the corvids funnily enough they don’t eat songbirds
Nexim An incorrect statement I’m afraid, they will not just eat bird food , unless your providing eggs, carrion and live food at the same time which i doubt.
Nexim unfortunately it's in there nature and feeding them will not make any difference to them taking song bird eggs or there young and probably attract even more of them..
Well presented video, thank you. The problem is in the name Natural England. Someone tell me where a natural balance exists. Man has been changing the environment in England for at least 6000 years. This is why this type of conservation is vital to support genuinely endangered species.
Perfectly summised, couldn't agree more
Piss poor video, put out by people who just want to kill
Your right a natural balance doesn't exist because of mans interference and the shooting brigade are palpably culpable along with farmers,
Gull populations are increasing massively
Flying rats
They eat rats, so they’re good
I like how people think that seagull number are “low” lmao we have hundreds of thousands in the north west of england. There is a problem a mega problem. There are more and more every year
Too many gulls and magpies is our fault. So should be allowed to cull them completely. Plenty of open space sill.
They need dealing with kids are not safe
Fear mongering!
What, seagulls are dangerous to kids, how?!
.22 pcp could solve the problem real quick, but you have to deal with Natural England I suppose
22 air rifle will be painless death for a seagull
@@DonManMaynard an air rifle can barely kill a wood pigeon half the time
@@theotheseaeagle nah trust me
I killed a Gull with my catapult on the banks of the river Orwell in Ipswich earlier
Ok I don’t think anybody really asked tbh
Not enough of them? They’re everywhere in Oxford. Nowhere near the sea!!
Far too many of them in the south west, mobbing people for food, crapping everywhere, tearing into bin bags & scattering rubbish, nests obstructing drainage so rain water builds up and causes damage to flat roofs etc. They're a menace and the numbers do need to be reduced.
Beesa10
It’s crazy how they think there aren’t enough of them.
In my area, closest sea being 100 miles away, herring, lesser and great black backed gulls have turned up in droves. The local corvids now act like sparrows and shy away from them. They are certainly thriving in suburbia very well!.
Because of habitat loss, it’s our fault
That is what happens when their natural food source is depleting due to fishing......
Not sure about crows but seagulls and magpies around my area are taking over. The magpies have left just about no songbirds. If law allowed, I'd happily get an air rifle.
Not seen a thrush in years
Our garden is completely overrun at the minute with corvids, magpies, pigeons, even seagulls and we are in a landlocked county ffs. Shit everywhere and songbirds disappearing. Absolute joke
I love bird shit, good for the soil
@albert fish yeah well isn’t too bad
I will not visit countries with those bird terrorising
10 years ago( what I experienced ) here in Norway seagulls and some other coast species moving up rivers and invade the whole inlands ponds,lakes and rivers hundreds of miles from the coast !! Not good,not good!!!!
The spread of species is completely natural. I’m sure the mammoths humanity wiped out though it was “not good not good” when our ancestors colonised Europe imao
such a dumb comparison
Me who gets a car wash because there is seagull shit all over it. I come out of the car wash and one shits on my car again. Bloody pests.
Those flying rats are stealing food from other birds. I have to stand guard when i feed small birds, Magpies and Crows.
I scare away the flying rats, so they are getting scared of me 😂
It is now 4 in the morning in Tain and there are gulls screaming like a pile of banshees as usual. I love animals but this is getting too much. There is a nice old woman I know that has honestly been reduced to tears because the council won't do anything about it.
I once had 3 gulls at once bum rush me to steal my breakast but they failed. A few minutes later tgey were successful scaring a child from her table and getting her breakfast.
god i fucking hate seagulls
Yeah!! Hunstanton and King’s Lynn.
people left too much food scraps for the gulls.
Searched bb gun shooting gulls and find this. Expecting to see gills get shot from the air, dissapointed
Herring gull numbers have declined more than half in the UK and their numbers are still decreasing
@Maynards so blue don’t be an idiot. Their numbers have declined by over 70%, and the current population is only 139,000 individuals. Compare that to the 750,000 pairs in 1993. You city people have no bloody clue it’s hilarious
Propaganda.
@@craigsenior1344 so scientific fact is propaganda? You people are funny
You better star cleaning those seagulls out
They have a very invasive behavior
The only true conservationist’s are the shooting community, the quangos will do the government’s bidding to end all field sports whilst our organisations have little effect. BASC spent a million pounds on a media centre, WHY?? anyone seen any production from that? Fieldsports Britain channel is more effective at bringing issues to the shooting public than most organisations. The SGA are talking about a political party, this is what is needed in a UK basis. I think Scotland will have very limited sporting opportunities if indeed any within 10 years so action is needed sooner rather than later.
Are you real? Because of shooters most raptors are persecuted by quite a few game keepers ...because of intense burning of the moors for grouse shooting water retention is undermined and plays a big part in flooding when heavy rain occurs ....do you want me to point out many of the other issues bought about by shooting that undermine your statement ...like lead poisoning etc etc etc
@ Biggles Biggles , I am real, living in the real World not the blindfolded one you inhabit. Muirburn has shown positive effects on peat regeneration and carbon storage, offers a fire stop protection to the increasing risk of wild fires and a positive effect on biodiversity, gives Scotland its famous purple heather landscape which is worldly famous, leave it to nature or RSPB and the like, it will turn to rank grasses.
Flooding occurs when local authorities fail to manage waterways by not dredging rivers that were previously dredged. Building housing stock on flood plains. Why do you think there is more flooding now? Muirburn has been practiced for over 100 years.
Lead is toxic, no argument there, stayed in a cottage with lead piping for over 40 years with no effect but where are the thousands of corpses that must die of lead poisoning every year, I ‘m sure if the evidence was there it would be on the news. Try taking a walk over a grouse moor where you will see more wildlife, including more successful fledging of hen harrier chicks than on un-keepered land.
@@head-Keeper your right and your wrong .....first of all rivers have rarely been dredged and when they have its been for navigation purposes, rivers naturally scour, your right about regenerated Heather creates fire stops and water and carbon retention, but Heather burning leaves vast acreages were water run off and erosion of moorland then becomes exacerbated......and I spend a lot of my free time up on the moors, so I am very much aware of the shoots who clearly do everything they can to undermine the raptor population Hen harriers are now at their lowest ever population.i am aware that there are good keepers but there are many with unscrupulous backgrounds , and the moorland we have now is not a natural habitat as beautiful as it is ...lead poisoning might not in your mind be effecting you ....but it has been proven that swans geese and dabbling ducks who have ingested it are poisoned, hence the reason it was banned on the marshes in the USA, and that stance is now being adopted over here and the continent....ohhhb I do know my stuff and I am no left wing crackpot
@ Biggles Biggles Gamekeeping has changed immensely over the decades, where every hooked beak was an enemy they are to a great extent tolerated and even provided with substituted feeding to reduce grouse predation, I agree entirely with your assumption that there are some rotten apples in the barrel but self governing and the threat of jail, loss of employment, home and reputation is a big stick to use. The loss of grouse will be the end of heather moorland in the UK, who else would pay to maintain it? The only natural habitat left in Scotland is the west coast mountain ranges where there is not a great number of grouse. The left (since you brought it up) preys on anthropomorphic emotion, mostly without scientific credibility, is a powerful enemy of not only fieldsports but the very wildlife it purports to protect as witnessed by the general licence debacle. How many songbirds etc were killed when control was halted. The lives of passerines are undoubtably less attractive to the coffers of the RSPB than birds of prey. By the way lead shot has been banned over marsh land and waterways in the Uk for some years now. We will not agree but it was an interesting debate while it lasted, you will have to excuse me I have conservation work to complete.
Just because they steal your chips doesn’t mean they have to die of it was dogs or rabbits peoples attitudes would be different they might need to be managed where they steal the mice from harriers and kill curlews but otherwise
People are just dumb ass hypocrites and we people who actually care about getting England back to a natural state are forced to deal with it
It’s the sleep deprivation. I am an animal lover but in the summer when I can’t get more than 5 hours sleep my mental health is ruined. If gangs of teenagers were running around residential areas at 4am every morning blasting air horns they would be arrested and charged. Where is the compassion for people?
@@TheFranchiseOfficialI’m the same person just on a different account 2 years later. I still stand by what I said kinda. But urban management could be possible. Not necessarily for people but for urban wildlife. There’s a park near me and often times wildlife is decimated by gulls. The gangs kinda have a choice too
Curlews and lapwings are being decimated by gulls, crows etc. ☹️
modern farming practice is a factor
Nope, it’s industrialised farming, habitat destruction and improper management on the gamekeepers part which is causing their declines. Not to mention a warming climate which has caused wildfires to increase dramatically
Where I work in aintree we have around 200 nesting pair's. We and are customers are attacked by them on a daily bases not to mention the mess they leave on everything ands there's nothing we can do about it.
MrAcid85 . Get a good air rifle. I won’t tell anybody.
Watch out, those Seagulls,
poke your knees!
I agree that we should be protecting our lapwings, curlews etc rather than the increasing numbers of rooks, crows and magpies we have next to our garden. The moors are near and the birds vulnerable. Not to mention our lovely garden birds. Time for someone to wake up at the preservation/licensing depts.
Reduce garbage, gulls will be reduced
Fed them ...they are hungry ........... try Alka-Seltzer !!!!!
My former naval brother-in-law, like most of his ilk, detests 'shite-hawks' as they poo all over the nice clean grey paintwork! A solution was training them to catch tossed bits of bread. After they've become accomplished 'catchers', conceal a small lump of Carbide in the bread. After a minute or so, the moisture in the digestive tract will cause large quantities of Acetylene gas to be generated, causing them to Blow Up, essentially!
@@1946nimrod Thats what Alka-Seltzer does! A Gas "build-up" Grew up around/at Great Lakes Naval Station (Family of MARINES) French fry with a pill got rid of a lot of those flying pests!!! Seagulls are all over the CHICAGO land area. Lakes,ponds, and water fountains are full of them, then they "attack" nearby food places!! And yes they are "protected" here too.
@@yamakawirodebike5710 I thought that's what you meant!!
@@1946nimrod Great !!! An "over the counter" problem solver!! Take care!!
That fu*cking noise they make... ..horrible!!
I am so sick of Seagulls, I live in Prestatyn, North Wales, I have a neighbour who feeds them and we now have two sets of nesting gulls over looking our house. We can barely go outside without the awful creatures attacking us, the council will do nothing about it at all. I've worked really hard on making my garden look nice and we can hardly sit in it, whenever I complain I get people saying : They were here before we were ! Any advice on the best deterrent ?
.22 air gun
Best deterrent is to have spikes on your roof or hire a guy with a bird of prey to scare them off (if possible).
They wete there before us..BUT the amount and availability of food was not. Nature would have take care of seagull population going to high...but its our intervention that has allowed to access more food and grow in numbers therefore our intervention is also to avoid that.
One type of person is entirely missing from the payroll of Natural(?) England - the British Countryman. Apparently, they have a staff of about 2,000 in various offices around our country. The vast majority are of an urban, Leftish, Greenish persuasion who just about squeaked a 2:2 in a former Polytechnic now called a 'University(?)' in 'Environmental Studies' or a similar non - subject. This qualification makes them utterly unemployable - except in Quangoes like NE, the Environment Agency and the National Trust or phony 'Charities' like the RSPB and RSPCA. Once recruited, the are given a very expensive hi-viz jacket and one of those ID tags to hang round the necks, and the title of a something-or-other 'Officer'! With this title comes vast and unappealable power over people with far more knowledge than themselves, which is a very scary scenario. In the old Soviet Empire in East Europe. they would have been called Commissars. David Cameron promised to have a 'Bonfire of the Quangos' but apparently couldn't find any matches..... The answer is really so simple with Blackbacks, Herrings and Cormorants - below Mean High Water mark, they're fully protected, above it, take as many as you like whenever you like. Far too simple, I suppose....
I love animals but gulls everywhere. Endangered my arse.
Here in Canada our national bird is the Canadian Goose. These honking, ghastly monstrosities shit everywhere and chase everyone coming within 100 feet of their offspring. Can’t touch em. Waddya do?👎🏾
Seagulls are Very Good, We here in New York City have Silver Back wich Eat Mice and Small Rats, these are not as Mean as Black Back Gulls,
It’s bad luck to shoot seagulls that’s the law it’s even bad luck to shoot anything for sport pay the consequences
ban food being eaten on the street Problem solved.
A case of alkasezers and some hot dogs and problem solved
Natural England, bunch off jobs worth. When I was a child there was flocks off lapwings, yellow hammers and hares etc. Now there’s none in Leicestershire. The main problem too in the country side are buzzards, but I do love seeing them because as a child you would never see them. 🦊
Farmers are the cause of loss of song birds, mass use of insecticides....not enough food for the adults let alone the chicks ..that's a scientific fact ....and hare coursing shooting and insecticide poisoning are the primary reasons for the demise if hares ...Buzzards are primarily carrion eaters and there numbers are down this year...so get your facts right
You are right farmers
Biggles Biggles hi, reference buzzards are primarily carrion eaters is true, kites too. I walk miles round Leicestershire and see both killing young leverets.🦊
@@joncox9098 and if they do, so what? ...you eat lamb and other animals I guess...they just don't have the luxury of walking out with a gun or popping down the supermarket....are the wild indigenous animals of this and other countries not afforded the right to live as they have evolved...and truthfully just how many leverets have you seen killed by kites and Buzzards ?
Biggles Biggles only chicken, don’t own a gun or a catapult, my main hobby is wild life especially birds, getting naffed off queuing at the super market tho.🦊
Any excuse to kill an animal for fun and prove you are a "real man". The problem here in Cornwall is the stupid emmets who think it is clever to feed the gulls inspite of the signs sayind don't feed the gulls.
It’s not just emmets Graham, I know of plenty of local old folk who feed them up on the Reservations - thereby giving them the food security needed for them to colonise the estates on the outskirts of many of our towns! No different are the locals who allow their cats to roam at night or dogs whilst out ranging during the day in nesting season. I used to enjoy pigeon, a very fine meat indeed - it made me a real man, growing up and realising where my food really came from!
Fucking hate seagulls.
They should be purged 😎
My dick neighbour has been feeding seagulls from his front door for the past 3 years. A majority of our neighbourhood has asked him to stop, and I have personally had a government body visit him to ask him to stop. He continues. They arrive at 7am and incessantly squawk until around sundown. Doing my f*cking head in…
Post dogshit through his letterbox every day
Live in a coastal town .... 4-5 am it sounds like a goths warehouse party every day I hate them !!
We get hellish bother at lambing with the grey backs killing lambs, and also the normal ones like to bother sheep aswell
Oh nah these seagulls need to get GOT* most nasty birds
If that rat is alive it will dig through the belly of the gull
Not much survives that pickaxe of a beak!
Jesus go to biology class
Lay off the movies pal 🙄
Quackham wouldn't know nature if it smacked him in the bill.
We live miles from any sea to the South of Glasgow City and I have just had a quote to respray my car, damaged from seagull poop, that was an eye watering £500.00. Who should be paying for this. Forget re-wilding the greenbelts. The seagulls have taken over the suburbs. Yikes...!!!
Seagulls are a pest why do people protect them I don't know
Ask King Charles, he's behind it.
THE MATRIX @@equinox95
the black headed ones are no problem what so ever, its just the herring and the black backs.
10mm steel ball
To find out about natural England ask the BBC
Where is all this R.S.P.B MONEY GOING
We as shooters are really really up against it ..The BBC,Wild Justice,RSPB etc etc and of course the brain washed public who hang on everything the fore mentioned tell them as they are not allowed to see what really goes on and amongst other things are brain washed into thinking many bird species are in decline mainly to habitat loss which is true in part but equally true is predation by birds Packham etc are trying to protect by getting them protection from trapping and shooting..Pure unadulterated hypocrisy by the so called 'conservationists'!
we have had a problem with them to
Although i’m for pest controll on invassive species, we eat al the natrural food of the seagulls. So they come to citys