We are a close-knit brotherhood, sharing stories of success and failure of curlews, lapwings, skylarks and other increasingly rare and very beautiful birds. But I do mind a great deal that the gull population has reached damaging levels – because they now pose a huge threat to more vulnerable British birdlife.įarmer-conservationists spend this time of year obsessing about the nests of waders and meadow birds. ![]() Gulls, particularly of the lesser black-backed and herring variety, are becoming a big problem.Īs a country bumpkin with gulls soaring placidly above the Solway Firth outside my window, I have no great axe to grind on their anti-social behaviour, except perhaps to make the jibe that there is something about the urban condition that seems to make both humans and gulls behave badly. ![]() Soon the papers will be full of summer stories of toddlers having ice creams snatched and pet dachshunds being savagely attacked.Ĭomplaints to councils have doubled in recent years – usually for noise, guano-spattered pavements and damage to buildings. ![]() If you are reading this in an estuarine city or seaside town, or perhaps near a municipal tip, your ears will be pricking up and there may already be steam coming from them.
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