Posted on 02/25/2011 5:50:29 PM PST by JoeProBono
SAN JOSE, Calif. -Residents of San Jose, Calif., said thousands of seagulls have descended on the area, making noise and dropping waste all over the town.
Thomas and Stephanie Andersen of San Jose said the seagulls appeared at a pair of ponds next to their home in November and the birds have yet to leave, the San Jose Mercury News reported Thursday.
"It sounds like you're at the beach," Stephanie Anderson said. "They squawk all day. They get in fights. And it's a sanitation issue."
The Santa Clara Valley Water District, which uses the ponds to recharge underground aquifers, said the banks of the ponds are now covered in chicken bones, plastic trash and seagull droppings.
"I have seen them in increasing numbers," said Nina Merrill, a water district wildlife biologist. "I've seen them at Dartmouth Middle School, too. They seem to be blanketing the athletic fields. My guess is they are coming from the bay."
She said officials don't yet have a plan for dealing with the birds.
"We need these ponds for groundwater replenishment. If it's a long-term problem we'll have to study it. It's not something we can ignore," Merrill said.
Dang, that looks like fun. I haven’t seagull fished in awhile
Sea gulls are the Hell’s Angels of the bird world.
One day at the beach a gull actually swooped down and stole a hot dog out of my daughter’s hand when she was about five years old. She was very put out.
Those seagulls are some darn clever birds. I used to jog on the bike path in Long Beach and witness their antics. They would grab live snails from the vegetation on the cliff next to the bike path, then fly over the path and drop the snails from such a height as to break the shells open on the concrete. Then they would swoop down and eat the fresh escargot. Sometimes it was so bad it was like you were being bombarded with snails. Clever, clever birds.
Hmmm...I live in San Jose but I’ll be damned if I’m gonna go see a bunch of seagulls that equivelate to a bunch of thug union members in which all they wanna do is take from you and not give.
I’m just sayin.........
Simple solution, get some fishing line thats made of spectra, nearly indestructible, anchor one end securely, bait the other end with a piece of pork. Set up as many as possible give at least 30 feet of line to each piece.
Seagulls cannot digest pork, comes right out the rear.
And another seagull will scarf it up, it will pass and on through another seagull, and it repeats.
Birds on a wire!
Flying jerks.
“One day at the beach a gull actually swooped down and stole a hot dog out of my daughter’s hand when she was about five years old. She was very put out.”
Yep. Happened to my son was he was about 4. We were having a picnic at the beach and a Seagull stole his sandwich.
They appear very similar to this guy..
Oh the problems blue states have that could be solved in 30 minutes with a box of #7 shotshells.
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