Seagulls

**The Green Goblin** · 08-07-2018 03:44 PM

I'll do the honours. Hunners and hunners of them. In folks' faces and swarming in the stands. Like a scene from The Birds. Really irritating. I'm sure there'll be the usual "bedwetter" responses, but I really couldn't care less - you batter on -

- it was brutal and I hope the club try to do something about it.

***givescotlandfreedom*** · 08-07-2018 03:46 PM

They're bad today! Folk need to not chuck uneaten food on the ground.

***SteveHFC*** · 08-07-2018 03:47 PM

Watching the seagulls has been far more entertaining than the 2nd half.

**007** · 08-07-2018 03:48 PM

Smaller than usual crowd so they're less scared.

**SChibs** · 08-07-2018 03:54 PM

Happens every year, nesting season over the summer I heard so that's why they are more irratible than usual

**hibbysam** · 08-07-2018 04:06 PM

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They're bad today! Folk need to not chuck uneaten food on the ground.

Nothing to do with uneaten food today. From the minute I walked in at 20 past 2 they were swarming.

madhatter · 08-07-2018 04:07 PM

Can we not get an eagle or plastic owl or something? Scare them away somehow...

**Borderhibbie76** · 08-07-2018 04:09 PM

Poor.guy few rows in front of me in East got s&&& on 3 times...he deffo needs to buy a lotto ticket

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**~~Chic Murray~~** · 08-07-2018 04:10 PM

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I'll do the honours. Hunners and hunners of them. In folks' faces and swarming in the stands. Like a scene from The Birds. Really irritating. I'm sure there'll be the usual "bedwetter" responses, but I really couldn't care less - you batter on -

- it was brutal and I hope the club try to do something about it.

They have been plaguing North Edinburgh, all summer. Anybody got any ideas why?

***Wembley67*** · 08-07-2018 04:14 PM

It's not hard to work out why, free source of food, they know it's coming so will hang around.

City centre is plagued along with surrounding areas as the bins aren't emptied leading to rubbish piling up and folk being disgusting pigs and leaving their rubbish strewn all over the place. Again some of this comes down to the council not collecting, especially from the big bins at flats but the folk that just chuck away their food wrappers can go and do one

***Diclonius*** · 08-07-2018 04:19 PM

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It's not hard to work out why, free source of food, they know it's coming so will hang around.

City centre is plagued along with surrounding areas as the bins aren't emptied leading to rubbish piling up and folk being disgusting pigs and leaving their rubbish strewn all over the place. Again some of this comes down to the council not collecting, especially from the big bins at flats but the folk that just chuck away their food wrappers can go and do one

Yup. It's a joke seeing grown men and women just leave their rubbish lying around at FT. How difficult is it just to hold onto it for 2 mins and put it in the bin?

***Wembley67*** · 08-07-2018 04:21 PM

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Yup. It's a joke seeing grown men and women just leave their rubbish lying around at FT. How difficult is it just to hold onto it for 2 mins and put it in the bin?

Should hand out fines for litter droppers with all money going towards the transfer budget, we could make loads

***Bostonhibby*** · 08-07-2018 04:22 PM

Their first game of the season and they've turned up in decent numbers by the sounds of it. Probably been a long close season for the flying rats.

I just hope they show up at away games as well.

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**Springbank** · 08-07-2018 04:22 PM

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Poor.guy few rows in front of me in East got s&&& on 3 times...he deffo needs to buy a lotto ticket

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That Guy is Gary Locke and i claim my £10...

**Sammy7nil** · 08-07-2018 04:23 PM

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Can we not get an eagle or plastic owl or something? Scare them away somehow...

So the plastic owls went on the Tynie sale

hfc rd · 08-07-2018 04:31 PM

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Poor.guy few rows in front of me in East got s&&& on 3 times...he deffo needs to buy a lotto ticket

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Seen that as well 😂

Probably one of the main highlights of the game today.

**Thecat23** · 08-07-2018 04:37 PM

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Their first game of the season and they've turned up in decent numbers by the sounds of it. Probably been a long close season for the flying rats.

I just hope they show up at away games as well.

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**Thecat23** · 08-07-2018 04:39 PM

They really are flying vermin. I’d love to see pest control sort them! Sorry if this offends any seagull lovers but they are way out of control all over the city.

**KWJ** · 08-07-2018 04:46 PM

Pic I took from east Mid bombing raid.

https://imageshack.us/i/poL6IL9lj

Just clocked the boy on the right protecting his heid 😂

***Arch Stanton*** · 08-07-2018 04:53 PM

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They really are flying vermin. I’d love to see pest control sort them! Sorry if this offends any seagull lovers but they are way out of control all over the city.

Edinburgh rooftops make grand nesting places for seagulls - not many nesting cliffs round the Leith area.

The availability of food in rubbish bins and on streets doesn't help but won't make much difference, I don't think.

I remember reading they were a protected species so I doubt pest control can help, more's the pity.

**Thecat23** · 08-07-2018 04:58 PM

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Edinburgh rooftops make grand nesting places for seagulls - not many nesting cliffs round the Leith area.

The availability of food in rubbish bins and on streets doesn't help but won't make much difference, I don't think.

I remember reading they were a protected species so I doubt pest control can help, more's the pity.

Never knew they were protected. Best put my air gun back in the cupboard 😁

***SteveHFC*** · 08-07-2018 04:59 PM

Dad's pal got **** on and dad got the splash back over him

***overdrive*** · 08-07-2018 05:03 PM

The weird thing is they seemed bugger off at half time (in the FF at least) only to make a reappearance as soon as the second half was under way.

**~~MSK~~** · 08-07-2018 05:23 PM

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Edinburgh rooftops make grand nesting places for seagulls - not many nesting cliffs round the Leith area.

The availability of food in rubbish bins and on streets doesn't help but won't make much difference, I don't think.

I remember reading they were a protected species so I doubt pest control can help, more's the pity.

When I worked at the Royal Ed I was speaking to a pest control guy, he had a falcon on his arm, he said they are not allowed to destroy the gulls but the falcon (and hawks) are sent in during hatching season & peck at the eggs to destroy the embryos inside.

***Hermit Crab*** · 08-07-2018 05:24 PM

The council used to go about in cherry pickers and shoot these rat b******s as well as the eggs in the nests to keep the population down, I wonder if they still do this? Seagulls are becoming more and more brazen and lesss frightened of humans.

Used to see the guys in Waverley station on the nightshift picking off roosting pigeons with an air rifle as well until someone/people complained about the dead ones lying on the tracks. Sensitive souls...

***Jack*** · 08-07-2018 05:32 PM

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Edinburgh rooftops make grand nesting places for seagulls - not many nesting cliffs round the Leith area.

The availability of food in rubbish bins and on streets doesn't help but won't make much difference, I don't think.

I remember reading they were a protected species so I doubt pest control can help, more's the pity.

They are protected but as I understand it that means you cannot do them or their eggs any harm.

I used to work in a place where they had loudspeakers on the roof that regularly sounded out their distress call. It kinda worked.

I'm wondering though if the gulls are affected by a certain frequencies of sound, like the mosquito, mice and rat devices, that humans don't hear. The council could incorporate them into lampposts and Hibs around the top of the stands.

**The Green Goblin** · 08-07-2018 05:32 PM

I'm sure I read somewhere that there was a machine you could get which played a high pitched sound of some kind which kept them away(?)

The rubbish/food lying around probably doesn't help, but I don't know why there are so many of them and they are so bad.