In the uncanny gully?
Seagulls are jerks.
Yes, and I canāt imagine why a robotic one would be any better.
Give up, Mike! Please, for all our sakes, give up.
No idea why the loud whirring and buzzing of RC servos and gears would scare off a flock of naturally skittish birdsā¦no clue at all!
You may laugh, but thanks to people like Mike Evans weāll be mining unobtanium in just over a century.
Kyle Geese (to Sarah Condor): āThe 600 series had synthetic feathers. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look birdlikeā¦ fishy stench, white shit, everything.ā
Seagulls dislike everything.
ā¦that they cant eat.
There is overlap in the Venn diagram showing ādislikeā and āfrightened by,ā but it they just look frightened by the rc car, more than just not liking it.
Herring Gulls are the worst. I grew up on the coast. Bastards, they are.
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Seriously, no one is going to note that this flock of seagulls left the area as quickly as possible. That they put a significant amount of distance between themselves and the intruders. Twelve hours and no one is going for the low-hanging fruit?
I see what you did there.
Lemme seeā¦ low hanging fruitā¦ birdsā¦ Reminds me of something from the 80sā¦ 1982 perhapsā¦
Point of order: seagulls donāt exist. There is absolutely no such thing as a āseagullā. Theyāre GULLS.
Lesser Black-Backed are FAR more aggressive than Herring gulls. In a fight over scraps, a herring gull will nearly always emerge the loser. I lost most of a damn fine chippie tea to one particularly evil shit. Almost lost most of a finger, too - took a whacking chunk out my left index finger. Scared and Scarred in Scarborough.
(Admittedly I was warned; the shop did have a sign outside reading āWhere Sea-Gulls Dareā).
Iām sure you do mean herring, but people often confuse 'em, LB-B are charcoal, rather than a sort of steel grey.
Hitchcockās āThe Birdsā would have infinitely more terrifying had they been LBBGs. Why are Ravens supposed to be scary - I LIKE Ravens, knew a lass who had a pet one (she had a form of Goth OCD, obsessed doesnāt nearly cover it). Havenāt seen her in ages, last I heard she was looking for an owl.
Iāve taken ages over this, but it still seems nitpicky. Sorryš
Oh, no, I know what a herring gull looks like. We had the buggers nesting on our roof in an attic flat. They used to get in through a loose slate and pick on the dog.
Shite-hawks, we call 'em.
Interesting. We have both herring gulls and LBBGs here in Finland too. But here LBBGs are quite rare and I think they are more timid than others. The common gulls are the most common gull here.
In most places the gulls donāt dare to approach people (usually they will keep around 10 meters distance) but there are certain places where they have learned to steal food aggressively. But in those places everyone except the new tourists will now that gulls are looking for an easy meal.
We have also greater black backed gulls but they donāt usually approach people at all. I guess they are too heavy to make any successful food thefts.
BTW the GBBG is āmerilokkiā in Finnish which would mean seagull in English.
Or just go by the scientific name, and forgo the use of common names altogether.
