[nickcarraway]

The seagulls there are aggressive. Usually they just try to come around when you are eating, but a couple years ago I was at Lover's Point, and it grabbed a part of a sandwich, just as I was putting a bite in my mouth.

This reminds me of when they were building the Chrystal Palace in 1851 for the Grand Exposition, and Queen Victoria was worried about sparrows roosting inside, and the Duke of Wellington told her, "Sparrowhawks ma'am."

[married21]

At the Terrenea Resort in Palos Verdes CA, birds of prey guard the patio by the pool.

[sasquatch]

Used to work in Moss Landing. A favorite sport was to lob a rock at roosting gulls as someone came out a door. They’d take flight and the first thing they’d do is lighten their load.

[x]

Every day is a good day for falconing.

I guess because falcons have to eat a lot and retail prices for mice are going through the roof.

[DoodleBob]

Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

[Myrddin]

My wife is a master falconer. One of her apprentices had a good business going using his birds of prey to keep birds clear of airport areas. Sadly, her apprentice took the mRNA injection and has assumed room temperature prematurely. It's a viable way to clear out pest birds. Harris hawks and peregrine falcons are bird eaters and very useful for the purpose. I accompanied my wife on a drive from San Diego to Sacramento where we coughed up $800 for a Harris hawk from a breeder. The bird was acting a bit "loopy" on the drive home. We took it to our local vet. $250 later the bird passed. The breeder called and informed us that his entire brood (our bird included) were infected with malaria. He refunded the $800, but we were out the vet bill and travel expenses.

[DiogenesLamp]

Pacific Grove Uses Birds of Prey to Prevent Seagulls From Nesting on Rooftops

This idea was discussed in one of the finest American Thinker essays I have ever read.

"Pigeons, Rats, and Democrats."

"Solution one was to buy Peregrine Falcons that eat pigeons. Solution two was to subsidize homeowners and business owners for "pigeon proofing" their properties. Solution three, increase the fines on people who feed pigeons in non-designated pigeon feeding places."

[woodbutcher1963]

I still remember witnessing a little girl carrying a piece of pizza on a paper plate at Hampton Beach NH. Her mom had bought it for her about ten seconds earlier.

A seagull swooped down and snatched up her slice in such a practiced smooth motion I was sure he had done it many times before. She immediately started crying.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

As long as the raptors don’t eat the butterflies!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I just put up two fake Great Horned Owls to keep the Northern Flicker woodpecker from sounding his mating rat-a-tat on my metal chimney caps. Didn’t work.

Mating season is winding down and he isn’t showing up so much. But for a solid month, fifteen minutes of noise at 6:30 am and again around 5:00 pm. I hope he finds a girlfriend soon.

The noise in the house is deafening because the metal flue is a perfect noise channel right into the fireplace.

[Hot Tabasco]

Air rifle enthusiasts would have a field day on those roof tops........Treat them (gulls and pigeons) like they do the iguanas in southern Florida.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

I like on Lake St Clair and while there are a good number of seagulls around, I can normally see them across the canal standing on rooftops the scatter when people get close. Think they are used to being shot which literally makes them gun-shy.

[monkeyshine]

I guess that makes it a no small pet zone, too.

[DannyTN]

Seems a little excessive, but okay.

Are these captured Birds of Prey or are we importing Klingons now?

[Seruzawa]

I hope they use big Hawks because Seagulls aren’t exactly pushovers.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

No such thing as a seagull.

• Pacific gull, Larus pacificus
• Belcher's gull, Larus belcheri
• Olrog's gull, Larus atlanticus
• Black-tailed gull, Larus crassirostris
• Heermann's gull, Larus heermanni
• Common gull, Larus canus
• Short-billed gull, Larus brachyrhynchus
• Ring-billed gull, Larus delawarensis
• California gull, Larus californicus
• Great black-backed gull, Larus marinus
• Kelp gull, Larus dominicanus (called "southern black-backed gull" or "karoro" in New Zealand)
• Cape gull, Larus dominicanus vetula
• Glaucous-winged gull, Larus glaucescens
• Western gull, Larus occidentalis
• Yellow-footed gull, Larus livens
• Glaucous gull, Larus hyperboreus
• Iceland gull, Larus glaucoides
• Kumlien's gull, Larus glaucoides kumlieni
• Thayer's gull, Larus glaucoides thayeri
• European herring gull, Larus argentatus
• American herring gull, Larus smithsonianus
• Caspian gull, Larus cachinnans
• Yellow-legged gull, Larus michahellis
• Vega gull, Larus vegae
• Armenian gull, Larus armenicus
• Slaty-backed gull, Larus schistisagus
• Lesser black-backed gull, Larus fuscus
• Heuglin's gull, Larus fuscus heuglini

  And that's only a very small partial list.

[WKUHilltopper]

You can get more of them with 7.5 or 8 shot.

[Scrambler Bob]

Keeps rooftop clean from contaminants that could enter the storm drain
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They gotta poop somewhere.

How will it stay out of the storm drain?