So your an Englishman and live in Scotland and you cant work out why the seagulls pick on your car? The Scots give the gulls a fish for every bomb on target of course  At work
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Aha now it all becomes clear.

Although looking at the mess they drop it looks more like kebabs, dog food and bin bag leavings rather than fish...

I think you must have sent them down here overnight.
Cleaned the car yesterday and guess what is on it this morning!

I know they are the same Scottish gulls because also cleaned my wife's car and that was untouched (as it has St. Andrews flags on the number plates)

lem_jpm wrote:

I think you must have sent them down here overnight.
Cleaned the car yesterday and guess what is on it this morning!

I know they are the same Scottish gulls because also cleaned my wife's car and that was untouched (as it has St. Andrews flags on the number plates)

Don't worry they'll be back. Just bombed the bigger target first and went back to reload.
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I saw a seagull last year trying to frantically choke down a whole slice of bread before his mates came and robbed him of his meal. Spent the next 20 mins watching it trying to force the massive bit of grub down it's gullet, protect what food was on the ground in front of it and try to call off the other gulls with strangled cries.

Then a couple of years ago I threw a lit cigarette away and saw a gull swoop down, pick it up (filter side to the beak) and fly off with it, only to drop it.
Guess it didn't like marlboro lights eh?

Shows you the mentality of the things. eatin, machines.

CG get yer gun.

What is amazing is how far inland you see the , I live about as far from the sea as you can get in Central Scotland and we still have them here........................ mind you worse than seagulls are crows/rooks - there is a rookery 100ft from my house and now they have young in their nests it would appear that my neighbours and I are right under their flightpath and on bomb alley

If you get seagull poop on your car try to wash it off asap - I don't know if it is the fish oil in their crap but seagull poop is incredibly corrosive to modern paint, NEVER let it dry onto a car otherwise you will have to be very careful not to damage the coating getting seagull off. How can carbon have a footprint, it has no feet?
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The reason you see so many inland is that modern fishing methods have hoovered up the sand eels that were their diet staple.So......the oportunists that they are have found worms in ploughed fields and rubbish tips are easy pickings

If I was a seagull I'd spend a lot of time eating,the rest flying over caravan sites  At work
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I used to like Gulls and Pigeons - But after giving the Freely a good wash down after a realy grimy weekend, she looked all shiny again untill SPLAT a F G great gull crapped on the bonnet, windscreen and roof.
Washed it all off when I got home - them f m today on a very short trip they did it again on the roof and windscreen.
If I didnt know better they were waiting for the next shiny (Stornoway Grey) to appear round the corner before releasing its fowl gunge at Freely.
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When I first went away to sea in the early 70's some of the crew used to kill seagulls by throwing them lumps of bread that had been well coated with baking powder.............................. greedy turds would gobble down the bread and fly away only to explode about 3 minutes later. Cruel I know and it had little effect on the seagull population, but they are also detested at sea as well - for exactly the same reason as they are hated on land.

Hey CG, I listened to the farming program on R4 the other morning and they were discussing chicken rustling, I never realised that some of the birds are worth many thousands of pounds, especially the rare breeds. Some poor bloke had had 300 birds stolen from his hen houses in one night and they were all rare breeds.............. hope you have good security round yours mate. How can carbon have a footprint, it has no feet?
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Tim in Scotland wrote:

hope you have good security round yours mate.

a sherman tank normal does the trick  At work
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Baking powder??

Coated bread?

How f**king cruel is that??

*gets 30 gallon drum of baking powder ready*

Tim in Scotland wrote:

When I first went away to sea in the early 70's some of the crew used to kill seagulls by throwing them lumps of bread that had been well coated with baking powder.............................. greedy turds would gobble down the bread and fly away only to explode about 3 minutes later.

That was one of the favourite pastimes in the Falkland Islands when guys are stationed there......not much else to do other than watch seals and kill gulls according to my father who had many a stay there.

I've not had a single bit of bird poop on my Fl2 since getting it....but also don't see seaulls here either

The tank was no deterrent CG - here's one of yours on the old BBQ

Tim in Scotland wrote:

When I first went away to sea in the early 70's some of the crew used to kill seagulls by throwing them lumps of bread that had been well coated with baking powder.............................. greedy turds would gobble down the bread and fly away only to explode about 3 minutes later. Cruel I know and it had little effect on the seagull population, but they are also detested at sea as well - for exactly the same reason as they are hated on land.

Hey CG, I listened to the farming program on R4 the other morning and they were discussing chicken rustling, I never realised that some of the birds are worth many thousands of pounds, especially the rare breeds. Some poor bloke had had 300 birds stolen from his hen houses in one night and they were all rare breeds.............. hope you have good security round yours mate.

OHH thats gross Tim - Hate them yes, but killing them in such an inhumane way thats really horrible. As for bird crap on the car, well I would rather drive round with a Stornoway Grey coloured tailored FL2 plastic mac fitted if the problem got so bad. Kill the poor things (grumble grumble) hmmmmmm not never  2007 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Manual with Premium Pack & Moonroof.
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