Pesky seagulls ...

[NutmegCT]

Let's see. Up in Maine for holiday. Bought a good ol' lobster roll for lunch. Thought I'd hold the lobster roll and take a perfect New England photo of a light house and my lunch.

What could possibly go wrong?

oops

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2019/06/09/seagull-lobster-roll-photo

 

[JPSmit]

timing is everything! great pic. In other news I was at McDonalds yesterday and someone was taking pictures of her ice cream cone - why do you need pics of an ice cream cone?

 

[LarryK]

Worst pests ever. Hated them when I worked the Marinas on the Mississippi near St. Louis. Get a kick out of the black boat canvases with the big white spots on them from the gulls and egrets.

 

[pdplot]

Daughter and I participated Sunday in annual Summer Bird Count. We had part of the shore area. Saw 10 Herring Gulls and one Great Black-Backed Gull. All the usual Ring-Bills were breeding up in the Toronto area. Those are the ones hanging around fast-food parking lots. Tom's thief looks like a Herring Gull - fearless. Many lobster shacks such as Abbott's In The Rough in Noank, CT string overheard wires across the outdoor tables to keep the gulls away.

 

[CaptRandy]

Time to add hot peppers or hot sauce to the mix.

 

[John Turney]

Time to add hot peppers or hot sauce to the mix.

Birds don't seem to be bothered by those. Adding hot sauce to birdseed is how you keep squirrels out of it.

 

[pdplot]

There is a monument to California Gulls in Salt Lake City. They ate thousands of locusts and saved the crops some years ago.

 

[JPSmit]

There is a monument to California Gulls in Salt Lake City. They ate thousands of locusts and saved the crops some years ago.