GP:
What was once a mere plot of a 1963 horror-thriller classic ‘The Birds’, a 1963 film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, has developed into a real-life nightmare for multiple coastal cities in Scotland.
Starring Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren, ‘The Birds’ focuses on a series of sudden and unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California, over the course of a few days.
In Scotland, on the other hand, there is an explanation for the ongoing seagull invasion – the dwindling fish populations pushing the birds further and further inland – and unlike the movie, the sea birds are there to stay.
The situation in the city of Elgin has become so bad that the residents have been asked to report if the ‘dive-bombing’ seagulls are affecting their mental health. more here
The Birds original movie was based on an incident of birds attacking people that was later found to be some kind of bacterial infection that had screwed up the birds.
Bird problem? Call 1 800 Haitians. soon you birds will be gone.
“…and have become a problem seemingly without solution.”
In the USA – target practice!
Stupid Scotts gave up their guns.
Hmmmmmmmm:
https://www.sciencealert.com/scotland-s-wind-turbines-are-now-generating-double-what-its-residents-need
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@ Jethro….I believe that seagulls are a protected bird, federal offense to shoot them, but they make excellent bait for catching shrimp in a shrimp trap. Somehow a few fell into our shrimp traps when I was in Alaska….I think it was seagull suicide…
Rats with wings!
Why are they protected?
@ jethro….https://birdfact.com/articles/are-seagulls-protected-in-the-us
@willysgoatgruff — You could make almost the same argument about actual rodent rats and it would be just as dumb.
If the gulls weren’t protected and we could shoot lots of them, then gull demand for coastal breeding grounds would be a lot lower, and we could put up more developments by the beaches. If we killed a lot of them, we’d all be better off! Yay!
Long barrel 10 GA. pump shotguns
with high brass #6 shot. win-win.
No more seagulls and now you have seagull
killing for tourist draw…. $2 a bird
bounty but only for citizens.Tourist
have to buy a permit.
“Migratory Bird Treaty Act”
Ducks and geese migrate and we shoot the sh-t out of them.
Even crows are considered “migratory” and we shoot the sh-t out of them too.
What is special about these rats with wings?
pigeons are rats with wings, like pedocrats…they land, eat, shit, & fly off
Time to start pumping up the bagpipes…
“Migratory Bird Treaty Act”
Ducks and geese migrate and we shoot the sh-t out of them.
Even crows are considered “migratory” and we shoot the sh-t out of them too.
What is special about these rats with wings?…
Seagulls have white privilege….
They’ve been protected for a long time? Why? All they do is eat dead stuff and shit. I killed one once. I expect this to be kept a secret. I was fishing on our local lake. Decided to move from the south fork of the lake to the north side. I had the bass blaster trimmed and rolling at 75 mph when out of the blue this sky carp made a dive for something right in front of the pointy end of my boat. His beak missed hitting the w
water by about an inch.
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