aw the parents are so tender with their own chicks , seagulls can be ruthless predators but they have a soft side when it comes to their family; their mate and their kids (=
@albert fish Not all animals necessarily I still appreciate the tender maternal instinct found in this bird that does not mean I approve of everything they do. Seagulls do cannibalise other gulls chicks I might find this distasteful but animals are not moral agents like human beings so I don't think of them as evil. The Outermost House -Henry Beston “We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilisation surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronise them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”
@albert fish 'noisy and violent' Both things that could be said about humans too. I think the real reason we don't get along with gulls is that we're kinda too similar to each other. We both like to hang out on the beach and eat fries
@albert fishWhere I live whe have plenty of seagulls and they hardly ever bother anyone. People around here are intellignet enough not to feed them or to leave thrash behind, and so they don't show any interest in humans. Yes, they are predators and eat other birds' chicks which is kind of hard to watch, but I don't see why you complain about that when you say you're a hunter yourself.
Nobody seems to notest that one of the 3 chicks is sick and most probably did not live for to long. Usually they are very active, even when that small and especially when receiving food.
Great upload, good to remind the gull haters that these birds are in decline so urbanisation should be welcomed. We need to adapt to them. Excellent Ian, Si.
Cheers Si, I just don't get gull hate. These birds are in Newlyn port so have a good supply of food. One of the buildings in the port was having a new roof built while I was there, designed to put gulls off nesting on it, work was on hold at the time, due to gulls nesting on the part of the (gull proof) roof that had been completed! Got to love em!!
@@IanPhillipsWildlife Great to read these words .There are times when I think we need misery proof places for all the sour faced haters Do they know what joy is ?..how wonderful these creatures and others are, not to mention nature has been around longer .The people seem to want a sanitary world unless it's their rubbish ...
I think this is a bit of a novice parent, those chicks eating that eel? Good luck! That said they seemed to be growing fairly quickly over the week we spent there.
Usually the parents takes bites from the food and the chicks take them from the parent's beack. In this case the fish was to smal for the parent to take bites and the chicks to small to swallow it. 🙂
Well actually seagulls are very intelligent animals, they aren’t stupid And also if you hate seagulls go the point that they pee you off, your living one miserable life
@FearUniverse .. I feel the same about many humans who drone on about their grandchildren /shoot / and kill wildlife .To me they are the stupid ones .Funny old world isn't it .
