I don’t know how this came across my feed, but it’s the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.
You can’t possibly know what’s coming until it happens. https://t.co/I7uoEikyGZ
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) March 10, 2023
Never underestimate the aggressiveness of seagulls when it comes to food.
Bonus:
Those were fun.
The little girl was perfect.
Instinctively perfect.
From it’s beak to her mouth.
And the grab on the head/neck was authoritative.
Thank you for the smiles.
Feed a seagull and 10 or more will immediately show up. Do that long enough and one bird will figure out the way to be first is to steal. One bird steals and the flock learns. There are beaches in RI that are danger zones.
The beach is a desert and seagulls are vultures, dump ducks and garbage geese. Beautiful scavengers. (People are stupid.)
David WS.
On our beachfront there always seems to be one family throwing food for the flying rats. As you said, suddenly you have a scene from The Birds.
It’s all fun and games until someone looses an eye.
Next time I eat pickled herring, I’ll look for sea gulls first.
On MA and RI ferries passengers are always told,”Don’t feed the sea birds!” . Of course always there are some adults and children who don’t listen. The results are nips and tears.
Little girl in the red coat is impressive; good response time.
My children were given a warning- next time ticket, if they fed sea gulls on one beach. Their feeding consisted of them drop crumbs/pieces and the birds being opportunistic, hung around them. When mama bear got back from bathroom and found out they had been threatened bc they were not picking up crumbs, it did not go well for park ranger. The birds are rats w wings and our family wouldn’t encourage their feeding no matter what.
I asked the ranger if he would come and keep the birds from harassing my children as they tried to eat, what they made a killing off the concession stands, and he slowly backed away, apologizing etc.
They are really a nuisance in places
Seagulls are who fishermen most count on to point out where the next bait ball is being pushed to the surface by stripers or bonito -myself included. Love of the ocean propels me to visit the beach in January and February when it’s tough for a gull to scrap out a living. Double tough. No doubt surviving a winter makes them aggressive as hell.
Great love & respect for seagulls. Garbage geese, dump ducks, sky rats, & Portuguese turkeys are all affectionate terms. : – ).
It’s the people (feeding gulls) that are the real problem, as usual.
Get a flock of seagulls (not the band) together by feeding them, then throw an orange slice into the air. Segulls do not like oranges. The goal is to see how long it will stay aloft from being picked off then dropped.
David WS.
We live 4 miles from Sleeping Bear National Lake shore. I call it ours..because we have adopted it as our own. Nothing commercial along Good Harbor Bay. A 5 mile stretch.
Bald Eagles make their home near by in hardwoods on large bluffs.
Praying the Rosary on my walks along the shoreline is as close to mystical as it comes. The Manitou islands sit off shore 15 miles. The dunes are iconic. The azure blue is inviting, but it’s best to wait until mid June before plunging in.
I too love the water.
I wish that our family didn’t move away from Cape Cod until I was okd enough to remember it. I was born in Providence. My parents lived in Greenville. Mom from Taunton.
Dad was from Northern Michigan.
My God Father, uncle Joe, was captured by a camera while showing off a beautiful Stripper that he caught off the beach in Cape Cod.
You live in a beautiful part of the world.
Me too.
God is so good.
Oh my goodness…
😳
[A striper he caught off the beach.]
Autocorrect makes my God Father look like…well, Tony Soprano catching a stripper. Gesh. 🤓
While Im at it old not okd.
Philip, Thanks. Sleeping Bear National Lake is a very beautiful area. I live very close to Taunton and can have my 16 Hobie fishing kayak in the ocean almost anywhere in RI and SE MA in under an hour. My favorite gems are Little Compton RI and Westport MA, off the beaten path and quiet. And so far no white sharks in permanent residence. Unlike CC with its’ seal populations. I’ve caught a hundred stripers but never a stripper- 🙂
Glad to hear about the lack of strippers…stay away from catching that species of fish. Dangerous territory.
We own a small 15.5′ Boston Whaler w/ 35hp Johnson. Perfect for inland lakes, Lake Leelanau for example.
Catch and release of the Small Mouth Bass is relaxing but nothing beats the walks along the shoreline.
I was in Fall River Mass in 1980.
Picking up a J-24 to drive back to Traverse City. The east coast is precious.
I target mostly summer flounder and black sea bass because they’re fun to catch and great eating. Can’t bring myself to buy a motorized boat. I catch just as many from the kayak and I’m mobile. Drive to where I want to be and launch. My 16′ Hobie revolution (turbo pedal fins) can do up to 9 miles an hour. Fastest kayak on the water. It’s now discontinued. I wish a had another. Can’t wait to be fishing again this year. Good luck.
9 miles per hour is cranking in a kayak…and it’s powered by your legs instead of arms. Incredible.
Your Hobie could be mistaken for a chubby sea lion. Be careful.
What did Chief Brady say while on board the Orca?
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Peter Benchley did such a marvelous job that an aquantice from Fort Wayne Indiana was visiting us in July of 1976. The book was made into a movie ofcourse and our 17 year old friend wouldn’t step foot in Lake Michigan regardless of the science.
True story.