Sorry to bore you all to death but we are currently camping in Devon which is filled with big white seagulls with light grey wings, now the seagulls as normal are constantly trying to steal food from us and one massive one managed to steal a bread roll filled with sausage and bacon from my table this morning! It flew up the campsite and about 8 - 10 gulls were all fighting over my roll I had slaved over until a feking massive white one with black wings landed and they all backed off! What is it? Why's it black winged and so much bigger? Anyone still awake?
That'll be old Jake. 'e's a bit ov a pirat' is old Jake... Standard operating procedure down here mate. A Deb'n gull can see casually grasped food from as far away as Cornwall. Bloody things rape tourists so easily they keep coming back for more. In St Ives, in the afore mentioned Cornwall, it's quite a well followed sport to watch the grockles try and make it form the chippy to the beach. This one, was it? The Great Black Backed Gull. My old cat, Elwood, tried dragging one of these buggers through the cat flap by the wing once. And he was still alive. The daft sod had tried to nick 'wood's grub and the boy was having none of it.
I've go no idea about the wing size but I do know that if you are in a caravan & your mates put a loaf of bread on the roof before you go to bed it it creates one hell of a commotion in the morning!! Not that I ever did to anyone or anything...
I was in Devon end of may when a sodding gull picked up a packet if bacon we left for 30 seconds. Hate the things
Lol yep raw sausages they nicked from the tent oposite We saw the black one again this morning and big groups of grey ones are scared stiff and leave any food they have for it
Know your enemy, Martin. Don't forget, there's also the possibility of Cornish Dragons nipping across the Tamar and venturing into the South Hams. Their normal food is almost all gone with the decline in the farming community and it's replacement with dreamcatcher shops and chainsaw carpentry mushroom outlets, so they'll pounce on the chance of a bacon sarny.
Actually Martin, when your outside eating, if you look to your left you'll see a load of ariels sticking up over the hedge... that's us lot... There not real gulls, they're radio controlled... Actually, it was Kens one that nicked your roll, I told him not to !!
You're all bloody grockles to me, Steve. But at least now I've got some back up now. All these Londoners don't believe the St Ives gauntlet story, but its true in'it, you have to keep your lunch under wraps until you get away from the beach.
Youre right ken they are lethal if youve got any type of food on you. The guy who works for me got an ice cream for his wife when a gull scat it out of his hand he was so mad he kicked out at the gull and slipped off of the quay and he landed on the rocks below. Poor sod had to go to hospital with broken ribs! Was quite funny tho
My brother managed to grab one that was fighting him for his sandwich off the back of the dive boat once. Tucked it under his arm and spent half an hour strutting around the deck with the evil thing snapping at him with a beak like a pair of mole grips with two Stanley blades welded to it, the maze bugger.
Saw a glimpse of something on the news this morning about a café using water pistols to keep them away from guests. Had one fly into the window at work once. Cracked the window and must have done it some damage as it fell to the ground like a brick. Was about 6 floors up so it was rapidly an ex-seagull.
