Seagull noise

I hate those seagulls as well - I live on Guildford Road. Let's shoot those little buggers.

To be honest, this is perhaps the most stupid complaint I have read on this site, come on, you must be kidding! Either that or you should move, if you don't want to hear the seagulls you shouldn't be living in a seaside town.

Well it depends where you live. I live high up where they nest on the building opposite. Until you've lived in a similar situation then you don't really have any grounds to comment.

I may not live up at the the top of the house that my flat is in, but I live locally from you, the noise from the birds nesting on most of the chimneys along my road and the road running parallel to mine is bad at breeding time, as it echoes between the houses, but as I said before, you live in a seaside town, what do you expect? It's like buying a house in the Gatwick or Heathrow area and then complaining about the planes.

Take care

Well since putting up spikes on my roof I've been able to stop seagulls from landing 3 meters from where I sleep, that's different to your case, trust me and not stupid. Because seagulls are seasonal it's not fair analogy to use planes because you can't test it in the same way. Unless you want to wait 6 months that is. If spikes were in place on the building ahead of me that would stop the direct line of sight nesting. Even though there is more distance they make noise more frequently because it's a nest so it's still a problem. It could easily be fixed by subsidies for spikes . That would also stop building damage. I think seagulls should be dealt with in the same way pigeons are.

I have a solution. Reverse time, like Superman did at the end of Superman II by flying around the world reverse-clockwise very quickly, to a period when Britain was still connected to mainland Europe and hence SEAgulls (the clue is in their name) were not a problem in your era. Watch out, however, for mutinous saber-toothed tigers and their ilk.

I don't know why people think this is such a hilarious suggestion. Councils control the population of rats and other pests, so why not seagulls? Even if they could just help people to stop them from nesting on their rooftops.

It's a seaside town, get a grip. I know a woman who bought a house next to a pub (it was cheap) then petitioned about the noise. Her arguement was she never looked at the house when the pub was busy, she lost the case for being a donut. You've got to expect Seagulls even if you bought the house when you couldn't hear them. I find them funny, they are opportunists just trying to make the most of us ruining their natural habitat. They trash our streets, spread rubbish and make a noise - but so do all the students who cant seperate their recycling properly and cant be bothered finding out the correct bin days.

Reason, I couldn't agree with you more. People are here talking about things like it's hard feelings after buying a house. I'm renting but I think exactly what you do, that the council should help with seagull nesting problems just as they would do with other animals in the city.

It's incorrect to say we live by the seaside so we should expect problems from seagulls

Seagulls haven't always been a problem in Brighton. They used to nest on the cliffs until the council put wire mesh up and rarely ventured inland. The mesh was needed to prevent erosion of the cliffs. The council failed to consider where the seagulls might nest after that and make any provision for them.

Seagulls are all over the place now and have become a nuisance.

The council are resonsible and they should deal with the problem

As noted by the last commenter - seagulls haven't always been a problem here. 10 years back it was relatively quiet. Last summer I had disrupted sleep for 4 months from 3am to midnight (21 hours per day) due to the continuous screeching of large flocks of seagulls outside. They've moved in to the area over the last few years and they're only a problem for 1/3 of the year. My solution is to buy double glazing with accoustic glass for the bedroom.

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