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Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on August 11, 2015, 07:13 AM:

It seems that Alfred Hitchkock was not completely in the fiction world with his film : seagulls are attacking people in Britain and in Belgium (and probably in France but so far I haven't hear of it).

Posted by Paul Suchy (Member # 80) on August 11, 2015, 08:38 AM:

"It's the end of the world..."

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on August 11, 2015, 09:13 AM:

Nature is adaptable: people expand into old habitats and the animals get pushed back. Sometimes they stay back, sometimes they move back in and figure out new ways of getting by.

I live on a 120 mile long island that used to have everything they have up in the woods up in Canada: Deer, Wolves, Moose, maybe a cougar here and there. People moved in, they moved out.

Fifty years ago (and more), some sportsmen decided to establish hunting preserves and bought in a few deer. Now where I work, I can see deer a couple of days a week on season even though they became locally extinct roughly 1900. Raccoons have made a comeback and people are making a decent living getting them out of people's attics and chimneys. Coyotes are in the Bronx and along the Connecticut coast, and I recently heard it's inevitable they will be living here in a few years (stop putting the cat out at night if you want to keep it...).

Some wienies are keeping baby alligators as pets: a couple of times times every summer they find a decent sized one in a local lake or thrashing around the cars in a supermarket parking lot because it became big enough to take off a finger and they abandoned it. The only thing we have in our defense is they could never survive our winters if the authorities missed catching one!

Our seagulls are quite fond of human garbage, and I could imagine them getting territorial too.

What was it they said in Jurassic Park?

-"Life will find a way".

It's pretty certain we won't always like those ways!

Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on August 11, 2015, 09:46 AM:

Being remade as I type - Hoping to get into the project

Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on August 11, 2015, 12:29 PM:

Not even worth eating either seagull.

Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on August 11, 2015, 03:28 PM:

The seagulls in San Francisco have adapted too well. When I've been to AT&T Park watching a Giants game they some how know when the game is suppose to end and start circling the field. They want to dive down and collect all those tasty baseball fan leftovers [Smile]

For the most part the seagulls are pretty harmless...but it can get a little scary when a game goes into extra innings. The seagulls get impatient and a few will dive-bomb into the stands and onto the field.

[ August 11, 2015, 11:46 PM: Message edited by: Janice Glesser ]

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on August 12, 2015, 12:46 AM:

New Zealand seagulls must be are more civilized.. [Wink]

Anyway about seagulls [Wink]

..who can remember watching "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" at the movies way back in the early 1970s?. I did and its certainly an unusual but very interesting film.

However the one thing that I have never forgotten, and still enjoy to this day is the timeless music by "Neil Diamond"

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on August 12, 2015, 01:18 AM:

Graham; your message surprised me as the title of this Film has the name of another bird. After searching I realized that in English you use the same word for two different animals. Both are very similar indeed but there are some différences http://www.20minutes.fr/planete/756731-20110711-comment-reconnaitre-goeland-mouette

Posted by Martin Jones (Member # 1163) on August 12, 2015, 02:18 AM:

The word "seagull" refers to a very large number of completely different birds.... it's generic to many species of gull who have their natural habitats "in, on or near" the sea. Generally speaking it's only the one type of gull that is so aggressive.

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on August 12, 2015, 03:01 AM:

Thanks for that precision, Martin.

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on August 12, 2015, 03:02 AM:

Thanks Dominique I had a look on Google and never new there were so many different types. [Smile]

Posted by Paul Suchy (Member # 80) on August 12, 2015, 09:29 AM:

This is great; while reading these posts, all I can hear is Mrs. Bundy at the diner joining in the conversation. If she was registered on this forum, I'm sure she would have plenty to say.

Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on August 12, 2015, 11:15 AM:

Reminds me of the time, about 4 years ago, when I took a boat trip over to Flat Holm Island in the Bristol channel estuary in the UK. It was a beautiful day, and we lamded on the island and went to a briefing where a guide talked about the history of the island. Then we were assigned to another guide for a tour of the island. Well this guide decided to march us right through the nesting area of a colony of seagulls, and the birds went absolutely crazy, dive bombing at us in a very aggressive manor, and flying right at your face. It was pretty scary, as the gulls in Wales are big heavy birds, and they could certainly do a lot of damage if they wanted to. It definitely reminded me of Hitchcock's The Birds !

Posted by Steven J Kirk (Member # 1135) on August 12, 2015, 01:46 PM:

What do they call Barbara Hershey in Belgium?

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on August 12, 2015, 04:09 PM:

Following Wikipédia France, the seagull killed during the shooting of her film would have been transleted by "mouette", so if her nickname had been transleted it would have been by this word [Smile]

Posted by Clinton Hunt (Member # 2072) on August 12, 2015, 06:48 PM:

Hi Joe Caruso,
are they remsking "The Birds" ?

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on August 12, 2015, 07:52 PM:

I took this photo last year [Cool]

...note how happy and content "New Zealand" seagulls are [Smile]

Posted by Mike Newell (Member # 23) on August 13, 2015, 03:57 PM:

Nice to know they are remaking The Birds but expected better CGI effects that this

Posted by Terry Sills (Member # 3309) on August 13, 2015, 04:35 PM:

Are you kidding me Graham! Looks like an evil little git to me. Here in Weymouth they are a lot bigger, drop their 'residues' all over the place - hence they are called sh.tehawks. Unfortunately they are a protected species, even though they have no predators, and recently would you believe, the Fire Brigade were called out to rescue one that had been caught up in some anti bird netting in the town centre! What a complete waste of public resources,time and money. Should have shot the bloody thing. Don't get me wrong. Everybody loves the sound of a seagull at the seaside, but they are becoming a nuisance in uncontrolled numbers.

Posted by Mike Newell (Member # 23) on August 13, 2015, 05:55 PM:

Always thought seagulls look quite majestic in an aerodynamic type of way. Generally they don't bother you unless you annoy them or wave food around.

Posted by Mathew James (Member # 4581) on August 13, 2015, 09:15 PM:

Here is one way to take care of the problem, if you are brave enough:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttm3790DSBg
[Smile]

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on August 14, 2015, 12:34 AM:

Poor little birdies [Smile]

....I like the photo, is that you Mike?

I notice in that video, everyone thinking how well done that person was catching it "ho ho" and all that. Might have been less "ho ho" if that beak had got a "grip"....big birdies like that can move pretty quick [Big Grin]

Posted by Mike Newell (Member # 23) on August 15, 2015, 10:52 AM:

Not me Graham just those Minogue sisters round for a secret visit 😊😊😊😊😊

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