Message Board - Natural Turf: seagulls
28 Sep 2009 by daniel bingle
Does anyone else have the problem with seagulls just sitting all day long on there grass?
iam head groundsman at a school in london and for the past 3 months have had a flock of seagulls that just seem to sit on the grass and do nothing - except prune there feathers and leave a mess!!! anyone know what they are upto?
28 Sep 2009 by barry glynn
I have the same problem mate and they are a problem. dont know what they are up to apart from cr**ping all over the place.
What do I do? I just cut the grass.
28 Sep 2009 by Mike
Same goes here, and its always in the same spot.
28 Sep 2009 by jezzo
Me too, feathers and crap everywhere!!! They are used to me being about so much that you can drive past them little more than 4 foot away and they just sit there!!!
Can I shoot them? only kidding.
28 Sep 2009 by MAVO
I had a flock roost at night on my square for most of the summer!,they do cause a lot of mess!..Been very tempted to get the airgun out!!...if only we weren't surrounded by houses!
I wonder if they eat worms?...i've seen the gulls walk round my outfield "pecking"about where there are an abundance of worms when it gets wet!
28 Sep 2009 by jezzo
I believe they are a scavenger type animal and they could be after scraps of food. But surley other than worms there cant be that much, My field is next door to a secondry school with a huge playing field and the guls never sit on there.
Could it be the extra warmth in the soil from fertilizers and spiking etc?
28 Sep 2009 by barry glynn
Id like an airgun too, id shoot the blo"dy lot of them if I could, geese, seagulls, starlings and the huge great magpies or whatever they are. Got 2 swans that sh*t for England that like my outfield in the winter for some reason, they get very shirty when I chase them away.
What do I do? I just cut the grass.
28 Sep 2009 by jlawrence
If all my seagulls did was to just sit there then fine - I couldn't careless if all they're doing is sitting. But they don't, put some flat sheets down and they seem to think yippee something to eat.
Of course there's no bounce, bend your back and put some bloody effort in.
28 Sep 2009 by Mal
The thing with seagulls is that they will come in land if the weather out at sea is bad, however jezzo is right in that they will scavenge food and that is why you will always see plenty flocking on and around waste tips. This can be a reason for the increase in seagulls flying further inland than in the last century. Of course they do spend alot of time at rest after all with alot of wild life if you are not hunting for food why waste energy on doing nothing in particular better to sit at rest or snooze. Jon with respect to the sheets it is the moisture that they crave. Another trait not yet mentioned as yet is that while they will not actively seek to get wet as this will only lead to loss of body heat but to stand on the perifary of a sprinkler in action can be a little cooler by a degree or too on a warm day. they will also congregate on an area recently waterered as the ground will be cooler due to evaporation.
Geography is everywhere
29 Sep 2009 by paul kelsey
got plenty crapping all over the square, during the season I was asked by our chairman if I could try and be a bit more carefull when marking out and not spill big drops of whitening on the wicket, my reply not printable.
29 Sep 2009 by tonybolton
Mal for us inland groundsmen the avian pests don't need to fly inland they live all their lives inland, breeding, living and dying on rubbish tips etc, most 'sea' gulls have never seen the sea. This includes many species common, herring, black headed, lesser and greater black backed, a colleague much into 'twitching' claims to have seen Glaucous and Icelandic gulls mixing with the hordes on his rugby fields. I once saw a Lady Amhersts Pheasant on my main ground when describing it to the members, I got this reply, 'It's nearly Christmas you know, are you sure it wasn't some bird in fancy dress.' Best way of shifting them is a couple of terriers who'll spend all day running and chasing.
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