Author Topic: Where do all the seagulls come from?  (Read 2781 times)

Where do all the seagulls come from?
« 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?

I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Phil W

Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
« Reply #1 on: 01 December, 2016, 03:56:52 pm »
SMS - Seagull Messaging Service....

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Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
« Reply #2 on: 03 December, 2016, 04:30:14 pm »
They are the lost souls of Manchester United fans.
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Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
« Reply #3 on: 03 December, 2016, 05:22:34 pm »
I'll try to keep this simple: first there's a mummy seagull, then.......

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Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
« Reply #4 on: 03 December, 2016, 05:27:38 pm »
Eggs.
It is simpler than it looks.

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Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
« Reply #5 on: 03 December, 2016, 05:28:40 pm »
Where do the eggs come from?
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Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
« Reply #6 on: 03 December, 2016, 05:31:28 pm »
Dinosaurs.

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Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
« Reply #7 on: 03 December, 2016, 05:35:51 pm »
Tesco.
It is simpler than it looks.

Ben T

Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
« Reply #8 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

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Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
« Reply #9 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.

Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
« Reply #10 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.

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Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
« Reply #11 on: 04 December, 2016, 04:52:45 am »
This sounds like a Bob Dylan song.
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Re: Where do all the seagulls come from?
« Reply #12 on: 04 December, 2016, 06:22:57 am »

. 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.