Posted on 12/10/2017 10:12:04 AM PST by Lazamataz
My son was attacked by seagulls in San Francisco when he was sitting outside eating clam chowder in a sourdough bowl.
A couple of years ago, I was driving to work and one of the fields off to the side of the road looked like it was covered with snow, with a weird whirling of snow above it. It was gulls... hundreds... thousands, maybe... a lot of gulls at any rate. This was some distance from the closest body of water that would support that many gulls, and I was marveling at the sight when my nose told me why they were there: the field had recently been sprayed with the liquid manure slurry pumped out of from one of the local dairy farm's pits. Apparently it was considered fine dining by the gull community and well worth the long flight.
"Uh huh huh huh....you said 'snatch'."
They’re horrible!
Statistically, probably less than 1.5% of them, but they'll always claim to be more numerous than they actually are.
Mr. niteowl77
(totally unaware of that musical tour de force all these years)
And munching on crackers to boot!!
Sounds like a special case for Chief Ironside.
LOL
Living on the Great Lakes, I have plenty of experience with these. Years ago on a beach on Lake Huron, I saw a person empty out a bag of chips for the lone gull that was there. I looked down the beach and saw lots of small dots on the horizon which, in a few moments time, became lots of gulls on the beach. They will go pretty far inland, too, and hang around fast-food parking lots. Once we were out and picked up some carry-out for my son to eat. We waited in the parking lot while he ate, and our car became covered with hungry gulls. Good thing we had the windows up.
One swooped and took a peanut butter sandwich right out of my grandson’s hand when he was about 5 years old.
The boy was known as Jonathan Livingston for a few years after that.:-)
Marc Sanger will set the bird up since he is the streetwise smart guy.
Eve Whitfield’s knowledge of fine dining will help narrow down the bird’s favorite places.
Sgt. Brown gets the feathered offender cuffed and booked.
Case closed.
ROFL
I live near the ocean. We refer to them as sky rats or dump ducks.
Even more fun when you feed bears.
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