Song birds and Seagulls?

[Thislilfishy]

Rural feral cats help keep rodent populations down, in fact with the rats over taking the cities they may be useful there yet. Raccoons and porcupines are getting to be a problem up north. Vets are plagued by the diseases they carry and transfer to household pets. However we've digressed very far from song birds. I remember a very stern lecture (perhaps a swift slap in the back of the head) from shooting my pellet gun, and missing, at a small bird. I was about 10 I think. I too love to hear the birds in the mornings, cept that bloody woodpecker in my back yard that's killing an old maple tree in the back yard. he comes back every year and goes to the same tree and drills a new hole.


Ian

 

[antiqueguy]

id love(this mean if it where legal it be done by me) to shoot seagulls but i know its not legal but them dam things really p*** me off when im fishing they sit there and wait for you to catch a goby or two one day i got smart and waited till the gobys piled up(almost always do) and then dumped them a few hundred yards away left me alone for the rest of the day.

house sparrows and starlings and pigeons they get no mercy .22 cb caps,
.22 rat shot,.410 loaded with sand(you have to be close with this one) and the pellet guns and slingshots may ways to get them buggers mostly inside barns and sheds

introducted and invasive species watch out they all get no mercy from me i go on a carp killing campaign atleast once a year i kill them drag them home and throw them in the compost its gotton to the point where i dont try to catch bass or any other real game fish anymore

 

[bearkilr]

How are gulls migratory. The only migrate to the dump and back.

There are seagulls outside of Newfoundland, believe it or not. They wouldn't do well in MB in January, yet there's plenty around this time of year. FWIW, Arctic terns migrate further than any other bird.

They don't bother me other than while haying, they eat all the little birds that can't fly well yet, sometimes I wish I carried a shotgun. We're talking Herring gulls here, aka "dump ducks".
That said, I've seen hundreds of them eating grasshoppers on fields, so they definitely have their benefits.

I agree feral cats should all be shot.