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Seagulls nesting and being aggressive in city

  • 08-06-2014 2:33pm
    #1
    -Vega-
    Registered Users Posts: 662 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys,

    wondering what my options are here. I live on rooftop apartments in eyre square and seagulls are nesting about our door. They are very aggressive and protective of the area and City Council says its private property so they cant move them. Anyone else have this problem or any advice? Neighbours have 6 year old twins that play outside and the seaguls coming in diving at 60 miles an hour with sharp beaks n talons aggressively is actually more serious that people realise!


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  • #2
    ben.schlomo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,261 ✭✭✭✭ben.schlomo


    -Vega- wrote: »
    Hey guys,

    wondering what my options are here. I live on rooftop apartments in eyre square and seagulls are nesting about our door. They are very aggressive and protective of the area and City Council says its private property so they cant move them. Anyone else have this problem or any advice? Neighbours have 6 year old twins that play outside and the seaguls coming in diving at 60 miles an hour with sharp beaks n talons aggressively is actually more serious that people realise!

    Im pretty sure seagulls dont have talons, unless its hawks ye have nesting?


  • #3
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    How do you know they are travelling at 96 kilometres per hour?

    We really need to hear the seagull's point of view - maybe you are the bad neighbour?


  • #4
    JohnCleary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,209 ✭✭✭✭JohnCleary


    Get in touch with your Management Company and make them aware of the issue. If you can get some written letters from your neighbors advising of the potential Health & Safety concerns for children (yada, yada....) they may do something about it.


  • #5
    jcro
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭jcro


    If they are nesting they are off limits until the chicks fledge.
    Council should know that.!

    After they fledge the management company can install bird spikes.

    Don't know if they would help but you could call birdwatch Ireland


  • #6
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Probably sick of youngsters trying to kick them after 100 years


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  • #7
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,083 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Are you renting or an owner?

    If renting, you should be contacting your landlord, who contacts the MC, etc

    If you're an owner, contact the MC yourself, maybe after trying the SPCA for advice. I'm not aware of seagulls being a protected species.


  • #8
    Notch000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭Notch000


    A good lacing Wd40 will get rid of pidgeons, worth a try for other birds too. Otherwise just break there nests up while there gone & repeat until they get the messaage,

    Dan them sea gulls, coming over there, taking our jobs and women. living off handouts, enjoying the summer while were all at work then pissing off for the winter whe nthe going gets tough


  • #9
    gordongekko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    What do you do with the wd40?


  • #10
    Notch000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭Notch000


    spray it at them with a lighter, flame thrower style

    ah no just spray it round there area & nests, think the smell & residue drives them away


  • #11
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,916 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Notch000 wrote: »
    spray it at them with a lighter, flame thrower style

    ah no just spray it round there area & nests, think the smell & residue drives them away

    Even if the species isn't protected cruelty is still illegal. It's defined as causing unnecessary distress or suffering.


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  • #12
    swiftman
    Registered Users Posts: 697 ✭✭✭swiftman


    Discodog wrote: »
    Even if the species isn't protected cruelty is still illegal. It's defined as causing unnecessary distress or suffering.

    distress they are causing is worse. humans come before feckin birds


  • #13
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,916 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    swiftman wrote: »
    distress they are causing is worse. humans come before feckin birds

    Strange reply with your username :-D


  • #14
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Discodog wrote: »
    Even if the species isn't protected cruelty is still illegal. It's defined as causing unnecessary distress or suffering.

    While I would normally agree seagulls are big bastards and will probably fly away with one of the children.* I doubt they are too happy to have humans nearby so it is best to get rid of them before they lay eggs.


    *Note:May be exaggerating


  • #15
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,916 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    shruikan2553 wrote: »
    While I would normally agree seagulls are big bastards and will probably fly away with one of the children.* I doubt they are too happy to have humans nearby so it is best to get rid of them before they lay eggs.


    *Note:May be exaggerating

    I agree that humanely preventing them from nest building is the best option.

    Chemicals like WD40 could cause injury.


  • #16
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,669 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    The seagulls were there before the city existed, but as always it's the animal who is in the wrong.


  • #17
    Patrickheg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 225 ✭✭Patrickheg


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    The seagulls were there before the city existed, but as always it's the animal who is in the wrong.

    The seagulls were on the apartment roof before the city existed?


  • #18
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,669 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Patrickheg wrote: »
    The seagulls were on the apartment roof before the city existed?

    :cool:


  • #19
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,083 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    shruikan2553 wrote: »
    ... seagulls are big bastards and will probably fly away with one of the children.* I doubt they are too happy to have humans nearby so it is best to get rid of them before they lay eggs.

    What time of the year do the humans usually lay their eggs?


  • #20
    Patrickheg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 225 ✭✭Patrickheg


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    What time of the year do the humans usually lay their eggs?

    Tuesdays


  • #21
    Aerohead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Aerohead


    swiftman wrote: »
    distress they are causing is worse. humans come before feckin birds

    I think the Seagull might have a different opinion to yours.


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  • #22
    Dr Turk Turkelton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,962 ✭✭✭Dr Turk Turkelton


    Is the speed limit not 50km/h in the city?
    If these seagulls are doing c100km/h would the speed cops not be able to intervene?


  • #23
    galwayredgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭galwayredgirl


    snubbleste wrote: »
    How do you know they are travelling at 96 kilometres per hour?

    Probably used the birdy equivalent of the Garda hairdryer.


  • #24
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Kill the parents then take the chicks on as your own and train them in schutzhund, they make great guard pets.


  • #25
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    Discodog wrote: »
    I agree that humanely preventing them from nest building is the best option.

    Chemicals like WD40 could cause injury.

    Take a big shìte beside the nest...that should do the trick


  • #26
    gordongekko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    Get a cat


  • #27
    Redhairedguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Redhairedguy


    Doom wrote: »
    Take a big shìte beside the nest...that should do the trick

    Arra now...:D


  • #28
    Dr Turk Turkelton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,962 ✭✭✭Dr Turk Turkelton


    Doom wrote: »
    Take a big shìte beside the nest...that should do the trick

    Is there nothing that a big sh1te can't solve?


  • #29
    Gremlinertia
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,479 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »
    Is there nothing that a big sh1te can't solve?

    A blast of piss??


  • #30
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    'Seagull came at me like a velociraptor and snatched hamburger from my hand' - Man tells Liveline


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  • #31
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    We need to confront this menace now before it's too late.
    Liveline Victim wrote:
    “First it’s our burgers, next it will be our jobs and then our wives."


  • #32
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    TerrorFirmer wrote: »
    We need to confront this menace now before it's too late.
    See post #8


  • #33
    marklazarcovic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭marklazarcovic


    i know a postman and he told me he used to get attacked by them when delivering to eyre sq centre appts..that was over 5 years ago, had to report it in the end as they were getting more brazen each day


  • #34
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,268 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    Some of them are big enough. I saw a few stood on shop street a while ago and they were almost as big as swans. I wouldn't like them outside my house tbh. Can of lynx and a lighter OP, before they lay eggs.

    Great thread though :pac:


  • #35
    preytec
    Registered Users Posts: 190 ✭✭preytec


    Get fox urine. Reck their nests and spray it around the area. They won't re_nest then


  • #36
    maki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 772 ✭✭✭maki


    preytec wrote: »
    Get fox urine. Reck their nests and spray it around the area. They won't re_nest then

    And end up in court if you're caught.


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  • #37
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,083 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    MadYaker wrote: »
    Some of them are big enough. I saw a few stood on shop street a while ago and they were almost as big as swans. I wouldn't like them outside my house tbh. Can of lynx and a lighter OP, before they lay eggs.

    Great thread though :pac:

    Yeah, I was taking the p8ss earlier in the thread, but am coming to think it's a real problem: there seem to be far more of them, and louder, and I ever remembered. Mr O'Bumble has even been heard talking about poisoning 'em - and had heard stories that it's due to changes in the way the fishing boats work (don't know how true they are).


    Anyone know who's responsible for keeping the numbers down?


  • #38
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    Anyone know who's responsible for keeping the numbers down?
    They'll be on the menu in some upmarket restaurants soon


  • #39
    Robbo
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,571 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    snubbleste wrote: »
    They'll be on the menu in some upmarket restaurants soon
    They would tick a lot of boxes on the ould hip restaurant checklist.

    Locally sourced, thrice killed ****ehawk served on a bed of twigs foraged from it's own nest. Served with a WD-40 aioli on an irregular shaped piece of chipboard salvaged from Carrowbrowne. Ethically treated because we paid a local animal hoarder to say so.

    Put this on the menu, some white spirit and emulsion stained jamjars for glasses and neither pay the staff nor the taxman; we'll be lauded as restaurant visionaries.


  • #40
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Has anyone noticed that there's something really wrong with the pigeons around the city recently? Most of them missing toes, or with grotesquely deformed feet.


  • #41
    gordongekko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭gordongekko


    TerrorFirmer wrote: »
    Has anyone noticed that there's something really wrong with the pigeons around the city recently? Most of them missing toes, or with grotesquely deformed feet.

    Ah now... We deffo need a load of pics of these pigeons.


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  • #42
    Gremlinertia
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,479 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    Funny enough there were always two pigeons in particular that used to hang around at the train station, both with one pretty mangled foot..


  • #43
    mack81
    Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭mack81


    TerrorFirmer wrote: »
    Has anyone noticed that there's something really wrong with the pigeons around the city recently? Most of them missing toes, or with grotesquely deformed feet.

    Its the seagulls that do that with their talons. They usually warm them first by cutting off feet and toes before a full on scrap occurs. Nasty f***ers both of them. Think Crips v Bloods


  • #44
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    The problem is city people got soft and the animals know to take advantage. In the countryside most animals know their place, they sneak around humans but flee at the first sight. Next time you see a seagull causing trouble give it a swift kick up the hole, shout at it beat your chest. It might sound stupid and cruel but that's how the rest of the natural world works. You can't reason with most other animals you just have to be scarier than them. Galwegians need to start marking their territory aggressively.
    TerrorFirmer wrote: »
    Has anyone noticed that there's something really wrong with the pigeons around the city recently? Most of them missing toes, or with grotesquely deformed feet.
    Could be in fighting, Usually injuries like that are from the same species, in species fighting usually ends with injuries rather than death. Something that would lead to all these bird issues would be over population.


  • #45
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,083 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Galwegians need to start marking their territory aggressively.


    Ahh, there's plenty of that going on already .. at least in the canine way of doing things.


  • #46
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    I'm sure race week will cull their population.


  • #47
    Butterface
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Butterface


    I walk up town to work every morning around 6.30am before the bins are collected. The seagulls, pigeons and crows rip the bin bags on every street to shreds. I've often stopped to watch them peck their way into a bag of rubbish.

    The other morning there was a ripped bag with mussel shells and other crap all over Quay St. I feel sorry for the bin collection lads having to clean that mess up. Maybe stronger bags would stop them? Or force them to eat live children.


  • #48
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    mack81 wrote: »
    Its the seagulls that do that with their talons. They usually warm them first by cutting off feet and toes before a full on scrap occurs. Nasty f***ers both of them. Think Crips v Bloods

    I get that aspect of it, but some of these pigeons have seriously mutated feet - covered in growths and lumps. Not just regular battle injuries (plenty of those too though).


  • #49
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,268 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    mack81 wrote: »
    Its the seagulls that do that with their talons. They usually warm them first by cutting off feet and toes before a full on scrap occurs. Nasty f***ers both of them. Think Crips v Bloods

    Seagulls don't have talons you numpty :pac: They aren't birds of prey, they're seabirds they have webbed feet.


  • #50
    Redhairedguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Redhairedguy


    We need to find the Alpha Gull and take them down. Their society will fall apart without leadership....


  • #51
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Seagull swallows a rabbit on The Skelligs

    Next: A dingo seagull took my baby!


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