This time of the year seagulls are moving back to their regular spots in the town centre and there will also soon be competition for every ledge-like nook and cranny from last years young seagulls that survived the many dangers or being raised in the town centre. Will the gulls get a bit of a knock-back this year though? The BID are going to have a removal program for nests and eggs on the roofs of businesses in their patch.
The BID's recent leaflet details the specifics of their anti-Salty campaign. The campaign starts in May and will entail three visits for egg and nest removals, the visits will take place once every twenty-one days to businesses in the BID area. More details here.
Good luck to this initiative it will certainly be labour intensive and how successful it will be will depend on the numbers on neighbouring properties that are not businesses. This observer remembers moving a nest every day for a fortnight and finally thinking that Salty had been defeated when he finally gave up the daily rebuild - one week later he was back and his lady friend was sitting on her eggs.
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A seaside town is going to try and remove gull's nests. The world really has gone mad
We've taken nearly all the fish out of the sea and replaced them with plastic and are busy heating up the planet so sea levels will rise and flood parts of Nairn
How about BID do something to help stop climate change rather than pick on seagulls? Is this the best they can come up with
Good to hear they are thinking of tidying up the High Street properties & getting rid of Salty & his relations which is long overdue, through the courtesy of The Gurn would anyone have any information regarding the flat above 24/7 Taxis which has been lying empty for over two years & looks in need of some care & attention, many thanks.
Last year I tried an experiment to see if I could stop a pair of gulls nesting on my outhouse roof. I removed the half built nest every day for 31 days, it became a battle of wills.
I only succeeded after that time by putting an unsightly piece of netting over the area they wanted to nest on.
Herring gulls are incredibly persistent, and I doubt that removal of the nests will work for any longer than a few days.
For the record, I have a pair that nest on my house roof and have done for the past 16 years that I've lived here, I've learned to live with it.
As far as I am aware it is ILLEGAL to interfere with any birds nest, and this includes Herring gulls. I live in a local housing estate and watching the seagulls raising their young fascinates me, they are wonderful parents. But the noise is a continuous strain on your nerves. As Joe says, we have to learn to live with it.
My money is on the gulls, they are simply more persistent, stronger willed and have better pooping aim.
You need a license, otherwise it is illegal to interfere with any nest. Like others have said the RSPB think it will have little effect, they will just be persistent or nest elsewhere. The start of BID vs residents?? Best practice is to remove food sources. BID could monitor that as local sources may be directly related to their members or by products via custom.
Maybe teach the kids from the academy not to throw food and rubbish everywhere
I was watching the BBC Breakfast news yesterday and there was an article about a town that also has a lot of seagulls causing trouble around town they have introduced a fixed penalty of £80 if you're caught feeding the seagulls maybe this is needed for our town
The ONLY way to control the Planets climate change is to reduce the human population...
You will NOT hear that mentioned too often in Climate Conferences, probably a little too uncomfortable for the masses to confront what is obviously the TRUTH....
Anonymous @10.36am the flat you are on about used to belong to the late Colin Bain brother of the editor and owner of the Nairnshire telegraph Iain Bain .I would imagine this would be Iains responsibility.
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