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Every once in a while we have a strange bird drop by the feeders.
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We’re not near the beach, though our property does back up on a large river.
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But this wayward traveler spotted the woodchuck buffet and decided to munch.
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You really don’t want to encourage a seagull.
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Before long one will become twelve and your backyard will resemble a landfill, with a dozen squawking birds fighting (and pooping) everywhere.
So after a few quick pics for blogging purposes, I went outside and shoo’d him off.
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Or so I thought.
Because when I turned around to go inside…
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He’d taken up a recon position.
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Seagulls don’t play.
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River's world..... 
Finding Nemo gotvthem right … “MINE! MINE! MINE! MINE!”
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For sure!
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LOLOL I didn’t know that about seagulls. I don’t remember ever seeing one here. Neat experience though
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They drop by every once in a a while. But we don’t encourage it…
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As much as I like every bird, I do agree with not encouraging the seagull. Because my experience when I was last down at a beach when it came to a seagull wasn’t a very good experience.
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I had one steal a sandwich right out of my hand. They’re fearless.
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Yes. I had the same experience. I hadn’t even managed to take a bite of my sandwich and the other went on the floor, along with my hot drink.
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Mind you. I say as much as I like every bird. Maybe I ought to exclude the seagull. Because I am not a fan of them in the same way as I used to.
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My wife was amazed to see a seagull when we moved here, 1000 miles from the nearest ocean, so I took her to the dump for birdwatching.
I discovered one more damaged item from our baseball-sized hail. The louvers at the end of the duct from our bathroom exhaust fan were damaged. A bird family moved in this weekend.
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Ugh. We had that problem for years. Starlings nested in our vent no matter how many ways we tried to block it.
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They don’t seem like they are wanted anywhere. Thank goodness I don’t live anywhere they would be. but I have so many blackbirds and pigeons. They are the bane of my existence, pigeons and seagulls, they are related I believe. In the “most annoying bird” category.
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Seagulls are clever and can be quite comical. One, I wouldn’t mind.
I’ve seen pigeons in our town but for some reason they never show up here. I think I’m glad.
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Seagulls are so aggressive. They can spot a bag of chips under a blanket, haul it out, rip it open, and demolish it in under a minute at any SoCal beach.
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Same here. They’re voracious.
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Have you been down in Laguna, where squirrels will steal stuff off your blanket? If you flick sand at them, they flick it back at you!!!
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True. I’ve never once seen a Moose, but many a gull has stolen my fries.
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I once had a gull swipe an entire loaf of bread out of my grocery bag.
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I love the photo of him on your roof. But I agree with you. You don’t want to encourage gulls. At the beach, they will rip into coolers or cloth bags hunting for food.
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You can tell by looking at him… I didn’t scare him one bit.
🤣
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I once saw a girl five bombed by a seagull who stole all her french fries 😅
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Sounds about right.
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Dive Bombed
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I knew what you meant.
😉
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We are not near the shore either, but there are lots of gulls around the river. Fortunately, they haven’t migrated up here. Although, I have seen them outside the fast food places near the airport.
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Great. Now they’ll all have heart disease and diabetes…
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