Theatres are inside. Seagulls are outside. Easter Road is outside. Do you see how that works? The scrounging squirrels can be a pain at Bard in the Botanics mind you.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Theatres also don't tend to have people frisbeeing their halfpizza because they can't be bothered to find a bin. (Though to be fair the ER pizza makes a better frisbee than it does a foodstuff)
The solution is there if people want it enough.
Personally I can take or leave gulls. I'd rather have red kites, but we shot all of them so here we are.
The vast majority of the gulls will go away once the chicks fledge. The rest will be dead in the next couple of decades anyway.
Then we can all moan about the rats.
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Thread: Seagulls
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08-07-2018 10:29 PM #61
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08-07-2018 10:38 PM #62
Thank the parliament - who displaced
The gulls and moved the problem on elsewhere for example Spring Gardens never had a problem until they started with those hawks/whatever."We know the people who have invested so far are simple fans." Vladimir Romanov - Scotsman 10th December 2012
"Romanov was like a breath of fresh air - laced with cyanide." Me.
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08-07-2018 10:59 PM #63This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Spread the word...
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08-07-2018 11:10 PM #64This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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08-07-2018 11:34 PM #65
They really were out in force today, worst I've seen and s****ing everywhere.
I feel fortunate my seat is right at the back but others are not so lucky.
I noticed recently in the livvy shopping centre up through the roof they have a mechanical hawk thing, it looks pretty cool, ......But how effective it is on deterring bigger birds like gulls, who knows.
Its one up from a plastic owl :)
Someone at the club should be looking for a solution
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08-07-2018 11:37 PM #66This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Fans need to complain to get action taken, fan also need to stop throwing unfinished food on the ground as well, parents take note.
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09-07-2018 03:39 AM #67This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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09-07-2018 05:19 AM #68This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Give the sparrowhawk a 4yr contract.
Or sign Muttley
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09-07-2018 06:50 AM #69
Seagulls
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09-07-2018 06:56 AM #70
These threads happen every season.
The seagulls are a nightmare and I fully agree it’s a massive distraction when you just want to enjoy the football.
Hibs should be doing something to help and the most simple thing is tell fans to not feed them and bin their waste properly.
Ideally recycle which I’ve brought up on here before.
Yesterday was horrendous and it won’t be 2 weeks till they are fixed it will be longer - it’s the same every season.
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09-07-2018 07:31 AM #71
The thing is, if people started putting their food in the bins you would have a thread on here saying people are getting up every 2 minutes to go to bins and getting in my way of the game.
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09-07-2018 07:46 AM #72
Its 100% to do with food. The seagulls are only in cities at all because of the food waste we leave lying about. They should be on the coasts - but we've taken all their food away from there.
There's not much the club can do. The seagulls see ER in the close season as one big empty cliff face, perfect for nesting. Then a couple of weeks later when the chicks are at their most vulnerable and the adults are half starved, a bunch of predators turn up and start throwing food around.
You can't kill them or interfere with their nests. That's illegal (and also, i would hope, not "Hibs Class"))
You could try netting or anti nesting spikes on the stadium roofs - that's very expensive.
You could employ people to walk up and down the roofs and seat areas all day every day before the birds nest - again expensive.
You could use noisemakers - i suspect the neighbours would complain, and they only work for so long anyway.
You could try kites, plastic owls, robot hawks - they don't work unless they are constantly repositioned, again expensive.
You could try getting in a company that flies birds of prey but ER is such a big area that again its going to be expensive and it probably won't work.
Or fans could stop feeding them. But we've already established that's impossible.
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09-07-2018 07:54 AM #73
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Looked to be a nest in the East stand at the FF end, so based on that, they won't be going anywhere quickly.
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09-07-2018 08:11 AM #74
Just neded a guy walking round with a big bird of prey on his arm like they did when I worked at kings cross. It should stop them I think. You can hire ppl for that.
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09-07-2018 08:34 AM #75This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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09-07-2018 08:54 AM #76This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I don't get what's so difficult to understand?
I could try saying it in seagull?
"Caw".
It's a problem created by humans. If we didn't throw food about the gulls wouldnt be here at all. They'd be starving to death on sea cliffs.
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09-07-2018 09:07 AM #77This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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09-07-2018 09:11 AM #78
Am no a tree-hugging, grungy hippy type but I always marvel at the arrogance of our species as we lord it up, demanding the extermination (euphemistically referred to as ‘controlling numbers’) of other species that happen to annoy some of us.
The birds have been around a lot longer than we have and will probably be here long after we’re gone...how dare they interrupt a game of football!
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09-07-2018 09:25 AM #79This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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09-07-2018 10:23 AM #81This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
These machines should be banned.
They generate noise pollution, horrendous things.
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09-07-2018 10:35 AM #82This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It is just financially not possible, even if they just restricted their efforts to Leith. That said they wouldn't be allowed to either as previously mentioned they ste protected.
During the same conversation with the bloke who done the surveying he mentioned that the increase in the city breeding population's might not just be about food!
It seems that there is a 5 degrees difference in temperature to being in the city rather than outside this means a brood is more likely to succeed.
He also mentioned he was puzzled when doing his surveys that many nests were not located where you would expect, behind chimneys, in gutters and valleys etc, but jammed tight between the actual chimney pots!
It wasn't until hearing about the links with temperature that he thought most likely these birds were there for that reason as the heat from gas fires etc rise up through these pots.
As I say the gulls are here to sTay and we need to adapt our way of living to discourage them further.
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09-07-2018 11:23 AM #83
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09-07-2018 12:01 PM #84This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
While everyone else is queueing for an overpriced pie that consists of cardboard, wallpaper paste and sawdust they nip off to Greggs and still get back in plenty time for second half dive bombing and generally taking the piss out of their evolutionary inferiors.
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27-07-2018 04:08 PM #85
Just watched the post match interview with Lennon and in the background a huge amount of seagulls wandering around the pitch and stands.
did they pay to get in and count towards the attendance?
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27-07-2018 04:13 PM #86
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Passed through Musselburgh today,was a guy with a Bird of prey walking about outside the bus depot, seagulls were going mental.
Maybe should get him down on match days.
Mind you probably a Jambo with a bird like that!!
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27-07-2018 04:40 PM #87
They are a damned nuisance and I don't care what the RSPB say they should be a massive cull 😠 Rant over 👍
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27-07-2018 04:50 PM #88This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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27-07-2018 05:15 PM #89
There was nowhere near as many during the game last night as there were a couple of weeks ago.
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