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This is AMAZING! Until now I never fully understood how to tell the difference between male and female birds. I always thought it had to be determined surgically... until now.


Which of the two birds is a female?

Below are two birds. Study them closely......... See if you can spot which of the two is the female. It can be done. Even by one with limited bird watching skills.













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:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

The one on the left? The bloke bird on the RHS is clearly trying to explain the offside rule for the 40th time to the girly bird, and she is totally blanking him.

Am I right? :D
 
Yep, looks like she has got her eye firmly on his pecker!

If ONLY he would stop talking!
 
Think this thread has taken a tern for the worse

A blonde, brunette and redhead were walking along the beach. A seagull flies over and craps all over the blonde, the brunette say's in a disgusted voice "hang on the bathroom is just up the hill, I'll go get some toilet paper."

After she leaves the blonde begins to laugh, the redhead say's "what's so funny?"

The blonde say's "well, blondes are suppose to be so dumb and look at her, by the time she gets back with the toilet paper that seagull will be miles away!"
 
and for all those poetry lovers amongst us..... :blink:

Gift Of The Seagull
by Munda

A lonely seagull flies the winds
Majestic... soaring...gliding wings
A single screech sounds from the sky
Come fly with me... come here and fly

My spirit floats to be a part
I feel the beating of its heart
My soul, one with this bird of sea
Now knows the meaning to fly free

I feel the winds caress my soul
And soar the streams without a goal
My being trembles of delight
A treasure I received tonight

The seagull's flight of soaring high
The gift of what it means to fly
 
A seaman meets a pirate in a bar, and they take turns to tell their
adventures on the seas. The seaman notes that the pirate has a peg-leg,
hook, and an eye patch.
The seaman asks, "So, how did you end up with the peg-leg?"
The pirate replies, "We were in a storm at sea, and I was swept overboard
into a school of sharks. Just as my men were pulling me out, a shark bit
my leg off."
"Wow!" said the seaman. "What about your hook"?
"Well...," replied the pirate, "We were boarding an enemy ship and were
battling the other sailors with swords. One of the enemy cut my hand off."
"Incredible!" remarked the seaman. "How did you get the eye patch"?
"A seagull dropping fell into my eye," replied the pirate.
"You lost your eye to a seagull dropping?" the sailor asked incredulously.
"Well...," said the pirate, "..it was my first day with the hook."
 
Kathy - good stuff - you'll be pleased to know that my birthday balloon is still doing sterling service in keeping Sammy the Snotty Seagull off the windowsill. He flew onto it today, as part of his daily ritual, and immediately banged on it, spattering it with his nasal drip. I was a bit miffed as they were only cleaned yesterday. So I've tied the balloon outside the window (again), and although he flew down a couple of times, as it swirled up, he immediately flew off.

Around teatime, I eventually gave him some bread and the skin off some smoked mackerel, which he gobbled down and then flew off, pleased with his day's snack.

I keep the balloon going now, and unless one of the gulls decides to give it a good beaking one day, it should serve as an excellent occasional deterrent. I love gulls, but when Sammy puts his head back and SHRIEKS repeatedly in the middle of the afternoon's racing, only a few feet away from me, then enough is enough!
 
and we get them very early in the morning... no sleep .......and lunch time 50 or more move down the street(like following a ship) when kids come back from the chippie and throw their left overs on the floor along with all the cartons !! and papers.... pitty we can't get them to eat that as well its like a tip every day..................
 
Seagulls - they're a bloody nuisance!!!!! Do they ever sleep??? They're usually circling & screaming all through the night. They're a pain in the backside once someone gives them food, too (as Aunty K can obviously testify to!) as they will pester people constantly after they have been fed once. They have to put signs outside a lot of the pubs & stuff out here telling people not to feed the birds as they are such pests!! Many is a time I've been very tempted to buy a BB gun & take pot-shots at them from the flat window....
 
I remember seeing a seagull in Seaworld, San Diego swoop down and snatch a burger from the hand of a boy of about four years old. He (the boy, not the seagull) was laughing and crying at the same time.
 
I was at Polperro and a similar thing happened there a young girl was bought a huge cornish pastie she broke the end piece off which is pastry held this up in the air to feed them... the seagull by past the pastry bit in her one hand, and took the whole pasty in the other hand.... its heavier than him but he was gone, her face was a picture and every body fell about laughing but it soon turned to tears by her............. :rolleyes:
 
Krizon, glad to hear the balloon is still going strong, and you have found a good use for it :D

I love to see the seagulls when I am approaching the seaside, but after an hour or so they are getting tedious, and I am only too happy to leave them behind as I drive back inland. The noise can be deafening at times!

The sound of the Tits & Robins singing in my garden during the dawn chorus is loud enough for me.
 
Most of the seaside towns in Cornwall now have signs warning people how dangerous it can be to eat in a public place due to the seagulls. They have become far more aggressive over the years.
I live near the coast and every year 'land gulls' or 'shite gulls ' as we call them here, as the bleedin' things never seem to go to the sea, try to nest on our roofs. This is fine until the youngster hatches and then we have the added pleasure of being attacked by them everytime we try and enter or leave our homes. :angry:
You can always tell a seaside resident, by the car they drive. Mine is red with large white polka dots :D
 
Yes I put a thread on here last year regards these gulls but was chastised when I stated the noise they make when having young or getting their leg over? :o.....I only groan a little and say more!!!.... :D and they are complete scavengers they were going to have culls or paint their eggs in GLOUCESTER and CARDIFF to stop them hatching but I never heard what actually did happen ? :o
 
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