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Immature seagull on porch roof

  • 19-06-2017 10:03pm
    #1
    WithTheRanks
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    An immature seagull has been squawking on my porch roof since Sunday afternoon. He's bigger than a chick, but still mostly downy feathers. Looks too old to be just hatched so I'm guessing he tried to fly off the main roof and landed there?

    The porch roof has walls on 2 sides, and tree branches blocking around the other two. I'm worried his parents might not be able to get to him. There's a ledge around the edge of the roof that's about as tall as him, so he probably can't get down on his own.

    Any idea if I should call someone or leave him be? I know they squawk a lot anyway and parents do leave them alone for a long time. But I'm worried he's stuck there!


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  • #2
    ThunderCat
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    WithTheRanks wrote: »
    An immature seagull has been squawking on my porch roof since Sunday afternoon. He's bigger than a chick, but still mostly downy feathers. Looks too old to be just hatched so I'm guessing he tried to fly off the main roof and landed there?

    The porch roof has walls on 2 sides, and tree branches blocking around the other two. I'm worried his parents might not be able to get to him. There's a ledge around the edge of the roof that's about as tall as him, so he probably can't get down on his own.

    Any idea if I should call someone or leave him be? I know they squawk a lot anyway and parents do leave them alone for a long time. But I'm worried he's stuck there!



    Was the nest he came from on your roof?


    I had a case like that a few years back where Herring Gulls were nesting on my roof. One day I noticed one of the young was in the garden. He either fell off the roof or tried to fly and wasn't ready yet. Anyway I got a hold of him, went to an upstairs bedroom, hung out the window and reached up to put him back on the roof. Worked out perfectly.


  • #3
    WithTheRanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭WithTheRanks


    ThunderCat wrote: »
    Was the nest he came from on your roof?


    I had a case like that a few years back where Herring Gulls were nesting on my roof. One day I noticed one of the young was in the garden. He either fell off the roof or tried to fly and wasn't ready yet. Anyway I got a hold of him, went to an upstairs bedroom, hung out the window and reached up to put him back on the roof. Worked out perfectly.

    I couldn't see anything up on the roof, but it's a big apartment building not a house, so it could be somewhere I can't spot. Unfortunately it also means I can't stick him back on the roof.


  • #4
    ThunderCat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭ThunderCat


    WithTheRanks wrote: »
    I couldn't see anything up on the roof, but it's a big apartment building not a house, so it could be somewhere I can't spot. Unfortunately it also means I can't stick him back on the roof.



    Ah right. Well what usually happens in these cases is the parents will still be around keeping an eye on it and still feeding it. Seeing as it is off the ground I suppose it's not in too bad a place. Unless there is some maintenance guy that has access to your roof then there is probably no way to get him back up there.


  • #5
    Chuchote
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    Most baby birds don't need rescuing

    http://www.irishwildlifematters.ie/animals/birds.html#GO-NEED-RESCUING


  • #6
    WithTheRanks
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    ThunderCat wrote: »
    Ah right. Well what usually happens in these cases is the parents will still be around keeping an eye on it and still feeding it. Seeing as it is off the ground I suppose it's not in too bad a place. Unless there is some maintenance guy that has access to your roof then there is probably no way to get him back up there.

    Yeah, there are foxes in the area sometimes so it's good that he's off the ground. I'm just worried if the parents can't get at him because of the walls and tree cover blocking all four sides. I can keep an eye on him anyway.


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  • #7
    ThunderCat
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    Yea I suppose if you could spare a half hour you could sit down on the grass outside your building with a book or whatever and see if the parents are able to get at him. Hard to properly visualise where he is without photos. By the sounds of it his best chance of survival may be to stay where he is. From your description he might be getting a nice bit of shade where he is too?


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