Posted on 09/07/2018 9:02:53 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
They are rats with wings
I observed a lone seagull on a mall parking lot
working hard to open a styro food container.
It took a few minutes but he opened it.
Then a large number of gulls descended and
ate all the food scraps. They left and the
one hard worker remained alone with
his empty box.
It reminded me of our welfare system.
There was a Maine restaurant that displayed a 100 year-old stuffed seagull.
In 2006 or so, a customer reported it to the feds, and armed agents from the government came into the restaurant and seized the thing.
I enjoy watching crows. Granted, they aren’t as much fun when they decide to have a gabfest outside your bedroom window at 0500, but their behavior is most interesting.
I have taken a particular liking to Blue Jays which are part of the crow family so they have much of the interesting behavior of crows, but have an added degree of goofiness to them that I find amusing!
I have a bunch (maybe 10) that have taken to sitting outside my office window waiting for me to open it and throw them some peanuts (in the shell) and the chess match between them and the squirrels is most entertaining.
And if I throw two peanuts out, if they are clearly different in size, a Blue Jay will pick the larger one up to fly off with and leave the other one there. (For a long time, they would try to pick one up and get it into their throat pouch so they could grab the other, but peanuts in the shell are too big, and they learned and don’t try anymore. It was funny to watch, they would try and try)
But if the two peanuts are close in size, it will pick one up, considering its size and weight, drop it, hop over to the other one, pick it to see if it is heavier, and if it isn’t, it will drop the one it has and hop back over the the original one and fly off with the booty!
You do realize that you are merely repeating a myth. Seagulls are very good at regurgitating anything and everything that they eat. That is how they feed their young.
They are not protected because they are rare, endangered or anything like that. They regularly cross our international borders and we’ve signed treaties with Canada and Mexico that ‘protect’ them. But I agree, they are the rats of the sky. But unlike rats, they are handsome-looking creatures.
The police state mentality people will fine you, not because of the bird but because they can, next time do it on purpose but don`t let any one see you.
So the crows are Republican and the Sea Gulls are democrats...
Always have admired crows!
No kidding...the people who live anywhere near the ocean or a large landfill know full well these things don’t need protection!
Ironic. Just wondering today if they are edible. Looks like they’d be fun shooting.
I do like watching seagulls take mussels and clams, and they fly over the rocks dropping them to break them open.
But crows are even more interesting. I saw a video where there was a tree with some kind of nut in it, and the crows would pick one up, judge its weight, and fly at just the right height over a nearby roadway to cause it to crack open when it hit the asphalt so they could get inside when they dropped it. If it was thicker or heavier, they would go higher with it. But wouldn’t go so high that the nut would shatter and be spread out in all directions in pieces.
Just high enough to crack the nut, which they could then fly down and pick up to fly off with and eat at their leisure.
But that’s not all.
It was a busy four way intersection with a light, and they would wait until the light turned red and then drop it so they could pick it up without being hit by a car...
Clever birds!
I agree. I find them to be beautiful fliers and interesting to watch (especially as they watch YOU)
I like seeing them fly low over the water, and when they bank, it looks almost like they are using on wing to nearly touch the water the way a surfer would use one hand on the face of a wave...
Seagulls, the Rats of The Sky, are a protected species?
Holy crap.......Holy crap, am I in trouble!!!!
I stepped on a cockroach the other day, probably get 5-to-10 for that.
Refuse to pay it.
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