Killed a seagull !

[Scary Des]

What do you do if a bird sh*ts on your boat

















Don’t go out with her again


Des

[Nick Hearne]

Originally Posted by Scary Des

What do you do if a bird sh*ts on your boat

















Don’t go out with her again


Des

[Mark Halliday]

Back in my yot racing days, we used to throw bits of bread into the "slot" (the gap between the fore sail and main) for gulls. The air turbulance really plays havock with their aerodynamics. In a bit of a blow they suddenly resemble a bit of cotton wool and quite often the can't get their feathers straight before they hit the water.

[craigdavis]

i hit a big bugger at 47kts just before i came into cows a few weeks ago was the funniest thing i have ever seen. He hit the front tube and just bounced strait into the water to then be swamped by the breaking wash of the boat.

[Jimbo]

Originally Posted by Mark Halliday

Back in my yot racing days, we used to throw bits of bread into the "slot" (the gap between the fore sail and main) for gulls. The air turbulance really plays havock with their aerodynamics. In a bit of a blow they suddenly resemble a bit of cotton wool and quite often the can't get their feathers straight before they hit the water.

I am definitely going to try that sometime!

[King_C]

Craig u hit far more than jus the 1....u musta wit the amount in that flock we split up!

A clear evnin in the solent....best place2find seaguls in their hundreds jus sittin around thinkin that the danger of us has past and that we're safely away under the roof of sum pub....for once they were rong!

[Broomy]

we thought we were the only ones who played this game!! hehe

not caught one yet, will try harder next time!!!

[King_C]

Another good 1 if theyre ever hassling you at a beach barbi is 2 use a few remains of bread roll in the water, grab sum nice sized rounded off stones and hav a mate offer you a tenner if u can knock 1 of the f***ers out!

We got real close and discovered an important trick that will also aid the running down of the scum....the smaller ones r more manouverable....the big b*stards r 2 slow so shud b much easier 2hit!

[Mollers]

Originally Posted by Shaggy

The Seagulls are bad in St.Ives but I was amazed at seeing a seal with a little yellow hat on climbing up the quay stairs to get to a kid with a fish!

This was before I went into the Slope for me pint of Speckled Hen

P.S I don’t think running over Seagulls is a very humane way of addressing the over population, did you I do run over other surfers when there is too many in the break.


Shaggy

We were at Gwithian yesterday with the two eldest kids, nice 2ft clean. There's me tootling along when a daft cow on a pop out drops in and landed clean ontop of my board, fin right over my foot. If she'd picked it up and placed it, it wouldn't have been more accurate.It was well crowded. Great for the kids though. They were riding the same waves, one reg. the other goofy laughing and giggling, good fun .

[Shaggy]

For all thought’s that thought I was mad, see attached seal complete with jaunty yellow hat

Taken from:

http://www.sealsanctuary.co.uk/gweek020905.html

"Brant, who is wearing hat tag number 42, has been seen several times in St Ives harbour, and is doing ok. The photo (left) of Brant was taken by Pat and John Amber whilst on holiday in Cornwall."

Shaggy

[Bill S]

I knew a guy who (whilst out fishing), used to dip his crusts in whisky and then chuck 'em to the gulls.
It didn't take much, or very long, before you would see a plastered gull doing a 'wing-over' straight into the water! They then sat there for quite a while, wings akimbo, with a look of 'what the feck?' before sobering up and flying off again. It really was funny to see. I wonder if gulls suffer hangovers?

Bill

[DGR]

I've noticed that whenever I'm approaching a bunch of seagulls sitting on the water, at the point at which they decide to leave and take off - they don't take their eyes off you - so they always fly either towards you or across your path. I've had several near misses this year - one was about 2 feet infront of the console when it made a sharp exit - must try harder...

Cormorants are funny - they seem to be the only ones that alays fly ahead of the boat in a straight line, and when I get too close, they plop into the water and dive quickly.

Guillimots always try to flap/run off sideways across the water - but then I get shouted at for annoying the Penguins (?!)......

And WHY tag a seal with a comedy fireman's helmet? Does someone have a grudge against Brant and his mates?

Dylan...

[roycruse]

Ive found the best way to get rid of Sky Rats...

Keep one of these under your jockey seat...

[Simon B]

An old colleague of mine used to amuse himself and his shipyard mates by quickly and roughly sewing a pile of carbide powder into a piece of ham. Ham-bomb lobbed into air, mother carrie's chicken gobbles it up and within seconds an explosion. Not sure if this was pressure or a proper detonation.

Seemed cruel but then you do wonder why it is that they always just happen to open the bomb bay doors when your underneath.

[Richard B]

Originally Posted by Mollulnan

The Emmetts have fed them so often over the years that fish and chips are now their staple diet.

You reckon it's just the visitors? Oh how wrong you are! We train 'em up and send them down. Here's one on a training session in Brighton - chicken and chips!
http://blueice.dogscogs.com/BigGull001.wmv

[jwalker]

Damn I’ve been trying to get a Seagull for ages.

a pile of carbide powder into a piece of ham..

Well done!! I’ve been trying to do that for years...

Stuff a small soft bap full of caustic soda and keep chucking it in the air until one grabs it.

We jumped in the car for cover ..

i hit a big bugger at 47kts just before i came into cows a few weeks ago was the funniest thing i have ever seen....

best place2find seaguls in their hundreds jus sittin around thinkin that the danger of us has past and that we’re safely away under the roof of sum pub....for once they were rong!

we thought we were the only ones who played this game!!

and discovered an important trick that will also aid the running down of the scum...


Etc, etc.

Saddows

i am not sad one of the little buggers got killed as i dislike the things,....

That's a good philosophy! Not.

[John Kennett]

Enough.

I'm not interested in any more bird-torturing stories, even if they are shite hawks. I've also deleted a few of the more abusive posts.

John