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Subject: [OM] Re: Seagulls, was A little cottage, was Re: Re: Photo
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:32:50 +0000
You won't see many seagulls this far inland, about 200 miles, except 
occasionaly on the lakes. We call pigeons, who are about the same sort of nasty 
pests, and seagulls, "flying rats" in these here parts. Jonathan Livingston 
Seagull be damned.

Walt

--
"Anything more than 500 yards from 
the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
Edward Weston


-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 
> Horrible, dark, greasy, tough meat. Gawd knows what you lubricate  
> with one - not a jet engine, that's for sure.
> 'Seagull' covers a lot of ground - English ones are normally mid- 
> sized Herring Gulls. Here we have small Silver Gulls and the big  
> Black-backed Pacific Gull which does not flock or adapt to human  
> presence in the same way although it is not particularly shy.
> They are highly adaptable scavengers - as they naturally clean up  
> beach and marine carrion they are quite happy to eat what we drop.  
> Mix that with a bold and aggressive temperament and you have a pest.
> Here 'seagull' is a nickname for that kind of person who always  
> materialises when you have chips and begs a few.
> My father was also RN in the second major unpleasantness - drove an  
> LCT at Anzio and took part in the PQ convoys on the Scylla. He always  
> had plenty of stories but none of them about seagull fishing.
> The modern equivalent would be urban rat fishing in alleys. Damn good  
> sport I believe.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
>
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