Gulls, particularly of the lesser black-backed and herring variety, are becoming a big problem.Īs a country bumpkin with gulls soaring placidly above the Solway Firth outside my window, I have no great axe to grind on their anti-social behaviour, except perhaps to make the jibe that there is something about the urban condition that seems to make both humans and gulls behave badly.
Soon the papers will be full of summer stories of toddlers having ice creams snatched and pet dachshunds being savagely attacked.Ĭomplaints to councils have doubled in recent years – usually for noise, guano-spattered pavements and damage to buildings. If you are reading this in an estuarine city or seaside town, or perhaps near a municipal tip, your ears will be pricking up and there may already be steam coming from them.
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