Keep the birds for Mr.Hitchcock....

[BeeMused]

And .. does anyone mind?

Nope, that was a wonderful evocative description. Thank you!

[TheCheerfulTreeRat]

I also remember years ago the radio station had a call-in for revenge stunts. The winner was a guy who had a fight with his neighbour. One day he noticed a gull on the neighbour's roof, so he threw a piece of bread over for it. The day after there were a couple of gulls, so he threw half a dozen pieces of bread over. The day after, the roof was covered in gulls.

...or the old classic!

[Dentarthurdent]

We have vicious squirrels. There are signs everywhere saying not to feed them. The local clinic treats more squirrel bites per annum than anything else. The other day someone was bit because they were standing behind someone who was feeding a squirrel.

[Kit-Ginevra]

We now have baby seagulls.They are trying to live at the front of the house.Found one on the doorstep the other day.This means that whenever you go by,you risk being attacked by a parent gull thinking you are after their baby,so we are trying to shunt them along the road to live.Seagulls aren't that bright-at my old house,they used to come squawking in whenever I went out on the patio that was across from the nest area.They haven't realized that because they can fly across a 20 foot drop,you can't....

[Skeen]

I love the gull population at the Adelaide Oval. It just isn't cricket without a thousand seagulls taking flight at every boundary!

Mr. Skeen and I were watching cricket one night and one of the commentators was giggling at one of the captains on the field, along the lines of, "Look at him! What's he doing? He's looking around like a seagull hunting for a hot chip!"

[fireheart]

I love the gull population at the Adelaide Oval. It just isn't cricket without a thousand seagulls taking flight at every boundary!

Mr. Skeen and I were watching cricket one night and one of the commentators was giggling at one of the captains on the field, along the lines of, "Look at him! What's he doing? He's looking around like a seagull hunting for a hot chip!"

Wait you're from Adelaide???

[Mishi]

Nah, scariest bird in Australia is the ibis.

Yes! We took one of Rugz's nans to see Southbank since she hadn't been there since Expo '88. We managed to grab a table for lunch, and I warned her about the ibis. She was talking in between bites of her pizza and an ibis suddenly tried to take off with it.

@Seshat: I love that description, it's what I think of too. Though for me, it's Eungalla not Lamington because it was my dad's side of family's favourite picnic spot and I spent so much time there when we visited those grandparents.

[Smapti]

One time I was at Sea World and I bought a funnel cake from one of the food booths. While walking ten feet from the booth to a table, a gull dive-bombed directly into my plate, knocking it out of my hands, whereupon several dozen other gulls immediately swooped in and devoured the whole thing in seconds like piranhas stripping the flesh of a cow.

The vendor saw the whole thing happen and replaced it for me at no cost (and set a second plate over top of it to protect it until I could get to a table).

[Seshat]

Mt Glorious is another of my places, as is Tamborine. Purlingbrook Falls, both during drought and during the wet - though not during flood. It's not wise to be there at flood time. Or at any falls, really!

[vikingchyk]

But that's just them. I dunno about gulls. I've only ever been mobbed by geese (which is pretty scary...but I'm scarier.)

You know what's really scary? Being mobbed by Mute Swans.
Oh, look at the pretty swans, across the lake.
Oh, they are headed this way.
Oh, they are coming up on the dock.
Holy crap, they're almost as tall as I am! (I'm 5' 7")
I'm surrounded! GAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!