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>> No. 2409 Anonymous
19th July 2014
Saturday 8:40 pm
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Weird situation, lads. I'm at my university campus and the pictured bird is hiding out near some buildings. I think he's been hurt, probably comes from a nearby park. Gulls are circling overhead.

I don't want to just leave this poor fucker to die and be eaten by gulls. Is there anything I can do to give him a fighting chance? He's standing quietly just a few feet from me. I don't even know what sort of bird he is.

Right now I'm just sitting on a windowsill with him hoping the gulls lose interest, but I imagine they'd remember where he is and come back. I'm even considering picking up the poor sod, but I wouldn't know where to take him and don't want to lose an eye.

What shall I do?
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>> No. 2410 Anonymous
19th July 2014
Saturday 8:46 pm
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>>2409
Leave it alone.
>> No. 2411 Anonymous
19th July 2014
Saturday 8:47 pm
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He's walking okay, but I think his wing has been hurt. The gulls have cleared off for now, but he's understandably not budging. What if I were to set out food and water where he is?

He's letting out a high pitched call. There's back and forth noises. I've not just blocked off a gulls access to her young or anything have I?
>> No. 2412 Anonymous
19th July 2014
Saturday 8:50 pm
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Looking at him now he does look like a young gull. A gull or two have come back. I hope I haven't disrupted too much.
>> No. 2413 Anonymous
19th July 2014
Saturday 8:50 pm
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>>2411

Just pick it up, take it home and call the RSPCA.

This could be terrible advice but I once took a crow home and it was fine the next day so I let it go.
>> No. 2414 Anonymous
19th July 2014
Saturday 8:57 pm
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>>2409
Leave it.

The first instinct might be to shield it and call RSPCA, but they'll do fuck all about it and leave you stuck their holding the baby.
>> No. 2415 Anonymous
19th July 2014
Saturday 8:59 pm
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>>2413

The RSPCA won't attend to wild animals or strays. You could take him home in a shoebox and google how to fix a broken wing. There are youtube videos.

I think its normal for baby seagulls to be unable to fly though and a lot of them do get killed. Maybe just leave some food for him? I don't know.

I remember there was an injured bird in my grandma's back garden and we called a bird sanctuary and they said they'd take him as long as we drove him there.
>> No. 2416 Anonymous
19th July 2014
Saturday 9:03 pm
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>>2415

If anything you want the RSPB, but yes that is a young gull. That's the colour they are before they fully mature.
>> No. 2417 Anonymous
19th July 2014
Saturday 9:05 pm
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>>2409
Gulls are vermin - leave it be and let nature take it's course.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 2418 Anonymous
19th July 2014
Saturday 10:46 pm
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>>2416
Keep those gangsters out of it.
>> No. 2419 Anonymous
19th July 2014
Saturday 10:53 pm
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>>2418

Apparently they're sharking in on the RSPCA's territory right? By like treating things that aren't birds and stuff.

Where's KnowsEverythingLad, I want to know more.
>> No. 2420 Anonymous
19th July 2014
Saturday 11:02 pm
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>>2419

Hang on, wikipedia is loading slowly at the minute.
>> No. 2421 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 2:30 am
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>>2417
MILLION YEAR BAN

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 2422 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 12:26 pm
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If anyone's interested I chose to leave him be after finding out he was himself a young gull. Hope the wee thing is alright.
>> No. 2423 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 3:42 pm
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>>2422
Fuck him. Gulls are cunts. I will never forget that time they tried to bully me and take my tuna sandwich in Year 9.
>> No. 2424 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 3:53 pm
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>>2423
Then this series of photos should please you greatly.

http://chrisjordan.com/gallery/midway/#CF000313%2018x24

It catalogues the corpses of gulls who have eaten bright bits of plastic mistaking them for food and then starved to death due to stomach blockage.

I'm not really suggesting you'd enjoy this, but it is kind of morbidly fascinating.
>> No. 2425 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 5:05 pm
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>>2424
It does please me greatly. I shall be littering more from now onwards. Why do they eat it?

I shall also buy a BB gun and shoot pigeons, crows and magpies outside my window.
>> No. 2426 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 5:31 pm
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>>2425
This post has upset me.
>> No. 2427 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 5:39 pm
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>>2426
Karma isn't real, but if he's that much of a cunt I imagine what goes around will come around. He'll probably be nasty to the wrong person one day.
>> No. 2428 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 6:15 pm
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>>2427
I am not a cunt. The gulls, crows, pigeons and magpies are cunts. I am not shooting owls and songbirds like the wren. I am only shooting cuntbirds, and for that, Karma shall reward me.
>> No. 2429 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 6:18 pm
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I fucking hate seagulls. Moving to Brighton wasn't the best idea I've ever had.



Weird situation thread? Not very weird but eh. There's a bit of publically owned grass out the front of the houses on my road and they're effectively treated as the property of whoever lives next to them with regard to mowing etc. My neighbour has taken it upon himself to put cones on his to stop... I've no idea. It seems standoffish, defensive and just arsey to me to be honest.
>> No. 2430 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 6:22 pm
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>>2429

Call the council on him before he has a chance to let it grow so that he can mow pro-BNP slogans into it.
>> No. 2431 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 7:47 pm
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>>2430
Or sneak over there late at night and write pro-BNP slogans with weedkiller, thus framing and disgracing the neighbour.
>> No. 2432 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 8:52 pm
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>>2430>>2431
Or I could just stab the cunt.
>> No. 2433 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 11:41 pm
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>>2428

Seagulls and urban pigeons are a menace, yes, but crows and magpies are fine. They are important carrion birds.

Seagulls eat small birds when they can't find food and deserve to be shot, an opinion I suspect I inherited from my grandad who used to feed the birds in his garden and had tamed them all.
>> No. 2434 Anonymous
21st July 2014
Monday 12:03 am
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>>2433
>They are important carrion birds.
You just try telling them that at the airport.
>> No. 2435 Anonymous
21st July 2014
Monday 12:19 am
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>>2433
My sleep is more important.
>> No. 2436 Anonymous
21st July 2014
Monday 12:39 am
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>>2434

I get why they shoot birds at Airports, even an osprey or a sea eagle would get merked.
>> No. 2437 Anonymous
21st July 2014
Monday 12:44 am
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>>2436
I thought they use them to ward off pigeons and the sort.

Birds as a whole are stupid animals, I have a view overlooking a pond and watching ducks makes me think they are the biggest cunts around. Bullying little ducklings, quaking incessantly, shitting as they please. Eating said shit. Fucking anything that moves. Bloody hell, they're like people.

Crows and other higher birds are worthwhile, the former are intelligent, witty, cunning, and generally really charismatic. They don't stoop to the level of moronic pigeons or even magpies.
>> No. 2438 Anonymous
21st July 2014
Monday 12:52 am
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>>2436
They seem to object to any live animals in your luggage.
>> No. 2439 Anonymous
21st July 2014
Monday 12:55 am
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>>2436
Just like militant wogs, it only takes two of them to down a plane.
>> No. 2440 Anonymous
21st July 2014
Monday 1:03 am
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>>2439

My plane once got a rather large eagle to the engine upon takeoff. It was pretty great. We had major turbulence, the pilot came on the radio to tell us all to be calm, bags fell out of the overhead lockers, we lost 500 feet, the oxygen masks fell out automatically, people started praying.

I was sat there 40mg of valium down grinning about finding out what happens next.

I'm telling you guys....
>> No. 2441 Anonymous
21st July 2014
Monday 1:16 am
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>>2437
I think the true deserver of the title of King Cunt of the bird world has to be Canada geese. Their shit is green, will damage your car if left on too long and produced in enough quantity that this becomes an issue when they're migrating over your house. They're also vicious, noisy, territorial little fuckers that will go for small dogs and children that are stupid enough to go near them. Vile creatures.
>> No. 2442 Anonymous
21st July 2014
Monday 1:29 am
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>>2441

>Their shit is green, will damage your car if left on too long and produced in enough quantity that this becomes an issue when they're migrating over your house

Why don't you just get a tarp or large plastic sheet to prevent this?
>> No. 2443 Anonymous
21st July 2014
Monday 1:42 am
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>>2441
Sprinkle a few brightly coloured bottle caps in your yard.
>> No. 2444 Anonymous
21st July 2014
Monday 12:49 pm
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I came into work today and the little geezer was still there, squeaking away to what I assume to be the parent bird, which hasn't moved since I was last there. Is this just how seagulls raise young, letting then plod around somewhere on ground level? Or is he stranded?
>> No. 2445 Anonymous
21st July 2014
Monday 10:45 pm
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>>2444

Yeah. The babies can't fly. It's standard. My parent lived in a seaside town and saw dead baby seagulls all over the place.

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