Legality Of Seaguls
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Musky Hunter
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trubluscrew said:
I don't know about alka-seltzer or borax, but when i was young and foolish, a friend and i had a couple hours of enjoyment feeding them bread soaked with beer! They started stumbling around and getting very vocal. Even funnier was when they came in for a landing and went head over heals... Ahh to be young and stupid.
The big problem with seagulls is their disease carrying potential, both on themselves and thru their droppings, which is why culling them, at least from garbage dumps (where they can pick up and spread pretty nasty things) and major human population centers should be imperative. As aquatic birds they pose very little threat, but once they start getting in close contact with high human population densities, they are a disaster waiting to happen, at best no less serious than pigeons.
bclinehand
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Try bread soaked in liquid Drano.......don't ask me how I know thisdaBear said:Imagine McDonalds parking lots without seagulls.....Not pretty. Only good thing I can say about the elusive Sh**hawk.. Oh by the way, they are not fond of breadcrusts soaked in tabasco.
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bclinehand
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I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and radio
now thats funny
now thats funny
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- Surrey, BC
This is 100% true, gulls don't really seem to cause any serious damage, but rodents and 'coons sure do! Up in the queen charlottes, it's open season on raccoons year round, because they're an introduced species and with no predators to control their population they in turn decimate local seabird populations (by eating the eggs, since seabirds usually lay their eggs on the beach where they're easy to get at). So we shoot 'em!Monty said:
Musky Hunter said:
Thanks for the pic MH, they look like a mix breed between a seagull and a crow... god that's ugly.
scruffy said:
Magpies know how to fly exactly the second before you squeeze the trigger.
Way back in the 1950's and 60's these birds were thought to spread livestock diseases from farmyard to farmyard. We were encouraged to kill them. I have come to within a second of shooting several hundred magpies and all but one flew just as I began sqeezing the trigger to shoot. These birds are mind readers.
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- Victoria, BC (temporarily Toronto)
I've never really had the inclination to do any harm to seagulls, although I've seen it happen a couple times. I was fishing for perch off the dock at newcastle island as a kid and a seagull took a kids baited hook when he was casting and tried to swim off between a bunch of moving boats. The kid ended up cutting his line, leaving the seagul to fly off with a good 30 feet of fishing line flying behind it.
Crows on the other hand I've done business with, but only with pellet guns, no dirty business with poisons, etc.
When camping, I once used a crow call to gather in a huge murder of them and picked one off, another time my uncle shot one in a tree and it took off then fell out of the sky right above our campsite.
At this campsite out in the middle of nowhere, the crows were brutal at getting into the campsite and ravaging all the supplies and food. The seagulls were never a problem and pretty much stuck to the dock area.
I personally have never had a bad experience with a seagull and would rather leave them to their business, and do what I can to stay out from under their flight paths. That doesn't mean that they can't be a pest in some areas and shouldn't be culled at times, sometimes that is just necessary.
Crows on the other hand I've done business with, but only with pellet guns, no dirty business with poisons, etc.
When camping, I once used a crow call to gather in a huge murder of them and picked one off, another time my uncle shot one in a tree and it took off then fell out of the sky right above our campsite.
At this campsite out in the middle of nowhere, the crows were brutal at getting into the campsite and ravaging all the supplies and food. The seagulls were never a problem and pretty much stuck to the dock area.
I personally have never had a bad experience with a seagull and would rather leave them to their business, and do what I can to stay out from under their flight paths. That doesn't mean that they can't be a pest in some areas and shouldn't be culled at times, sometimes that is just necessary.
Be aware that they're very fragile birds. A couple of years ago the seaguls were extremely abundant near my place and they'd make tons of racket and generate lots of crap. I remember my neighbor taking aim at one with his crosman pellet gun (a cheap plastic 495fps model) and he whacked a big one square in the chest. If fell over dead right there. I went over and picked it up and it felt completely hollow. Must have weighed only a few ounces. He's shot at crows and hit them with little effect.
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Amphibious They are NOT a protected species in ON anymore. Especially if you farm(as I do) JITC
scruffy said:
my uncle used to do that when he was a kid, until he decided it was more efficent to ventilate the nest with a .303. that resultd in smack upside the head courtesy of my grandfather who had to explain to my grandmother why there was blown apart magpies in her rose bushes...
If it isn't a real threat to your Livestock, Agriculture/Aqua culture, and it isn't in your Hunting regs as a game bird then whether -you believe- it should be around or not is moot, as You can't kill it...full stop.
A simple no brainer solution is to remove the food source, and they will move on.
Also a heads up from someone who has been studying Corvids birds for 5 years now (as a hobby)...Very few Crows or Seagulls can "hover", so build your bird feeders accordingly...ie with narrow footing, and overhangs etc.
And yah a McDonald parking lots would be a rat infested gross place without Sea gulls, and Crows (More then average anyway).
A simple no brainer solution is to remove the food source, and they will move on.
Also a heads up from someone who has been studying Corvids birds for 5 years now (as a hobby)...Very few Crows or Seagulls can "hover", so build your bird feeders accordingly...ie with narrow footing, and overhangs etc.
And yah a McDonald parking lots would be a rat infested gross place without Sea gulls, and Crows (More then average anyway).
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