Sea gull hunting

[COL Jagdog]

Sea gulls are carrion eaters (scavengers) & as such do much good toward keeping our water ways from being a stinking cess pool. If you have ever been on a fish stream after a major spawn, it would be very clear what a job they do in processing lots of mother nature's waste.

For ten points, answer today's question;

Why do sea gulls fly over the sea?



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If they flew over the Bay, they would be called BAGELS

Bad joke punishmentD):

You must repeat the folowing 20 times in rapid succession:

"A gaggle of haggling bagel-eating seagulls"

 

[Rule3]

Ten years older than YOU? I thought all California lifeguards were blonde, 18 - 25 year old, perfectly tanned, gorgeous females! You mean I can't believe everything I see on TV????

They are now male

 

[handejector]

Now that we have a thread on the gulls, we will need a thread on the buoys.

Now that's just really bad. We have a Seafood restaurant with that on the bathroom doors.

Okayyyyyyy.......
So where do the people go?

 

[zoom6zoom]

If they flew over the Bay, they would be called BAGELS

This thread just took a tern for the worse!

 

[Retired W4]

I guess I'm the only one who read J.L. Seagull. Not to say that's a bad thing.

 

[Sebago Son]

Disco here, dis-go der....

I guess I'm the only one who read J.L. Seagull. Not to say that's a bad thing.

Nope... just the only one that would admit it...

I still have a copy of Niel Diamond's album in my 70's closet along with a pair of tri-tone, 2" platforms and a lime green double knit leisure suit.

 

[handejector]

Nope... just the only one that would admit it...

I still have a copy of Niel Diamond's album in my 70's closet along with a pair of tri-tone, 2" platforms and a lime green double knit leisure suit.

It ain't true without the PICS.......

 

[Dikinalaska]

Here in Alaska seagulls are overrun by the bald eagles. I know they're supposed to be "majestic" and "beautiful" but they're worse than the seagulls by FAR! They are dirty, stinky, scavengers. They rarely hunt anything. It's not anything like what you see on tv. Although I've heard it's interesting to throw bread out for seagulls for a whole than put bread on a hook and fish for them. Seeing a seagull fly around on the end of a line like a kite is pretty amusing. Or so I'm told.

 

[Kanewpadle]

Nope... just the only one that would admit it...

I still have a copy of Niel Diamond's album in my 70's closet along with a pair of tri-tone, 2" platforms and a lime green double knit leisure suit.

Ahhh, miss those WIDE lapels!!

Is your mood ring in there?

 

[trapper704]

Years ago we were working on a paveing project on the columbia river highway. Sea gulls were pests,all over especialy at lunch time. One flew over a splaterd a fellow worker and his lunch. Next day he had a bunch of m90 fire crackers-------------tied to chicken bones and lit then thrown in the air. poof exploding feathers. only happened once but didn't solve a thing.

 

[Sebago Son]

Ahhh, miss those WIDE lapels!!

Is your mood ring in there?

Yup... I slipped it over the chain of my "keep on truckin'" medallion and looped the whole works over my lava lamp.

 

[Sebago Son]

It ain't true without the PICS.......

Believe me Lee.... if I put up pics you'd throw me off this board...

 

[CWH44300]

That's the only reason I clicked on page 2... lol

 

[Fishinfool]

Speaking of Gulls, here is a neat pic I too a couple years ago of a pair of gulls harassing some ducks.

Larry

 

[wbraswell]

Can you defend your lunch on the beach with something like a bayonet?

 

[-db-]

I've been known to "catch and release" a few sea gulls, casting live bait while fishing. I have to put on gloves and use needle-nose pliers to get the hook out of their beaks. You have to reel them in slow so as not to break the fishing line, or else they fly off trailing the fishing line behind them. If that happens, they end up getting the fishing line tangled up in the mangroves and dying a horrible death.

I, too, have fished for and caught a gull. I must have been about 10 years old and myself and a friend figured it would be fun to catch one while fishing one day. Off came the hook, worm and sinker and on went the top water lure and it wasn't too long before we had one attacking the bait, having attracted a bunch of the birds to our area tossing whatever food it was we had with us out onto the water. It was great excitement flying the thing like a kite for awhile until the "Ok, what now?" moment arrived. Realizing neither of us really wanted to tangle with a large angry bird up close, which itself was quite tangled in fishing line by this time, out came the knife to cut the line, the bird left to deal with its fate. I felt bad about losing the Hula Popper it had probably taken me a month to save for but also for the bird, realizing its odds of surviving weren't good and that I had done wrong.

As an adult, I have no big love for gulls but they probably do us a great service keeping beaches, shorelines and other spots they frequent a lot cleaner than they'd otherwise be were the gulls to not exist.

 

[Sebago Son]

"... I have no big love for gulls but they probably do us a great service keeping beaches, shorelines and other spots they frequent a lot cleaner than they'd otherwise be were the gulls to not exist."

I'd be all for Seagulls if we could train them to eat tourists...

 

[LVSteve]

The "nuisance" caused by gulls is merely a reflection of our own disgusting habits. Some folk that move to NV complain about the coyotes, crows, ravens and turkey vultures, but you rarely hit roadkill on the highway thanks to that clean up crew.

 

[cussedemgun]

mergansers

Speaking of Gulls, here is a neat pic I too a couple years ago of a pair of gulls harassing some ducks.

Larry

The "ducks" are merganser hens, a common fish-eating diver with a saw tooth bill that is designed for fishing. The gulls are probably trying to steal part of their catch.

You didn't think people were the seagull's only target, did you?

Some years back, I worked for a food packer on the west coast. They had a seagull problem with flocks roosting on the roofs & leaving behind their guano splattered on everything. They tried owl & hawk decoys to no avail. Artificial rubber snakes laid out on the roofs finally solved the problem!

 

[Kanewpadle]

If you REALLY want to get rid of them, just throw them a Rolaids. But don't get caught!!