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Random Musings => Miscellany => Where The Wild Things Are => Topic started by: pcolbeck on 01 December, 2016, 03:53:42 pm

Title: Where do all the seagulls come from?
Post by: pcolbeck on 01 December, 2016, 03:53:42 pm
Just got back from walking the dog and there was a tractor ploughing the field. It was followed by about a hundred seagulls.
Now on a normal day round here you will see a couple of seagulls, maybe five or six sometimes. How do they know that a fields being ploughed and gather so fast? So they get a seagull SMS?

Title: Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
Post by: Phil W on 01 December, 2016, 03:56:52 pm
SMS - Seagull Messaging Service....
Title: Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 December, 2016, 04:30:14 pm
They are the lost souls of Manchester United fans.
Title: Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
Post by: Peter on 03 December, 2016, 05:22:34 pm
I'll try to keep this simple: first there's a mummy seagull, then.......
Title: Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
Post by: Jaded on 03 December, 2016, 05:27:38 pm
Eggs.
Title: Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
Post by: Basil on 03 December, 2016, 05:28:40 pm
Where do the eggs come from?
Title: Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
Post by: Kim on 03 December, 2016, 05:31:28 pm
Dinosaurs.
Title: Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
Post by: Jaded on 03 December, 2016, 05:35:51 pm
Tesco.
Title: Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
Post by: Ben T on 03 December, 2016, 08:42:59 pm
I was thinking only today that a gull cull would be in order. Parks and lakes are overrun with them
Title: Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
Post by: Kim on 03 December, 2016, 08:50:30 pm
In Brum they all seem to hang out on Cheddar Road.  Make of that what you will.  Personally, I don't think Birmingham has any right to have seagulls.
Title: Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
Post by: Crumbling Nick on 04 December, 2016, 12:43:46 am
Perhaps seagulls might have come from the sea. I'm old enough to remember that they didn't come far inland when I was young. But they are opportunist species. They have adapted to the changes caused by Homo Sapiens.
Title: Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
Post by: Vince on 04 December, 2016, 04:52:45 am
This sounds like a Bob Dylan song.
Title: Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
Post by: Hot Flatus on 04 December, 2016, 06:22:57 am
Quote from: pcolbeck on 01 December, 2016, 03:53:42 pm

. How do they know that a fields being ploughed and gather so fast?

Because they are bloody clever. Hence the move into urban areas where food is plentiful, and tall buildings provide safe nesting sites.