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For the birds.

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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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34 thoughts on “For the birds.”

  3. 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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      1. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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      1. Gulls don’t scare easy. What was all that Jonathan Livingston Seagull book and movie stuff when I was young? It was a nice story, but no gulls have a higher purpose or empathy for others in life. My husband calls them rats with wings.

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  11. 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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