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[Snipper]

It seems wherever you go seagulls are increasing. 

Been to my mum's little cottage in Southwold, Suffolk. When she bought it in 1960's you never saw a gull. Now they are busy excreting over everything. These pests are protected. Why?

[Snipper]

Like the censorship imposed on my topic. 

[Snipper]

Just now, Snipper said:

Like the censorship imposed on my topic title

Assume it was decided that it was inappropriate to have an "e" after the "t" and "i" etc.  I had put. 

[Methuselah]

Oh, come on, stop whining? We all know what you mean. And, why such animals (they're everywhere!) are protected is a mystery to me, too...

[Nick L]

There is a swear filter. There has always been a swear filter.

[ciel]

Gulls can be controlled under certain conditions by individual or general licence.

http://www.rspb.org.uk/makeahomeforwildlife/advice/gardening/unwantedvisitors/gulls/urbangulls.aspx

Maybe us humans should also consider more carefully the manner in which we dispose of the waste food on which these gulls thrive.

Edited August 2, 2016 by ciel

[lassie23]

Just don't eat fish and chips on the sea front whatever you do

[Methuselah]

16 minutes ago, ciel said:

Gulls can be controlled under certain conditions by individual or general licence.

http://www.rspb.org.uk/makeahomeforwildlife/advice/gardening/unwantedvisitors/gulls/urbangulls.aspx

Maybe us humans should also consider more carefully the manner in which we dispose of the waste food on which these gulls thrive.

I don't know about 'disposing of it', ciel...when I went to Ullapool, I never even had the chance to eat it: the Stuukers (spelling please?) got to it first!

[Snipper]

Pity my poor mum. She only has one place where she can put her bin. It seems to be the aiming point for the guano manufacturer perched on the roof. 

[Methuselah]

I don't think there is a 'cure', Snipper...When I was in Inverness (working in a Smoked Salmon Factory) someone thought that a plastic owl might solve the 'gull problem'. For a few days things went okay. After that the gulls were shagging it!

[Snipper]

Like smoked salmon. Make my own as well a curing bacon.  Currently air drying a leg of pork to make Prosciutto ham. Suppose to be drying for 12 months. Should be ready next February. Something good about fast food. 

[Methuselah]

Can you do smoked chicken, Snip? I got some of that from Latvia, and it's yummmmmy?

[ciel]

3 hours ago, Ed Stone said:

I don't know about 'disposing of it', ciel...when I went to Ullapool, I never even had the chance to eat it: the Stuukers (spelling please?) got to it first!

I'm being serious here. 

Private individuals, local authorities and those privateers who look after landfill sites should take more responsibility for the reasons that urban gulls are on the increase.

I don't blame the gulls.

[Methuselah]

5 minutes ago, ciel said:

I'm being serious here. 

I don't blame the gulls.

I don't blame the gulls either, ciel; they do what their genetics tell them. I accept that, but why are they encouraged to colonise everywhere? There are millions of the buggers in Milton Keynes, and you can't get much farther from the sea than that?

[ciel]

9 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:

 but why are they encouraged to colonise everywhere

Who encourages them?  

It is us folk who have provided  fine breeding locations and sources of food.

[Methuselah]

6 minutes ago, ciel said:

Who encourages them?  

It is us folk who have provided  fine breeding locations and sources of food.

Exactly, ciel. I don't like the buggers dive-bombing me, but they do deserve to survive....Then again, when I was at Nigg, they readily ate lighter fluid?

[Snipper]

1 hour ago, Ed Stone said:

Can you do smoked chicken, Snip? I got some of that from Latvia, and it's yummmmmy?

Yes you can smoke a lot of things. 

I will start a thread on curing and smoking meat and fish. Tomorrow probably.