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Gulls have found mussels and decided to drop everything in RQ Marina when I say everything that is the shell, parts of the contents and the digested crap out of their rear ends ......
Went down for a quick looksee and check over today only to find that I had no option other than a full wash up. There was crap and shell everywhere in lumps, spots, mounds and spread and trampled on.
Luckily its only up to a week old so washed off with a bit of detergent.
We used to have this bother when the marina was first etablished about 11 or 12 years ago. I figure the gulls used to come in for the winter months and hole up in Albert Edward Dock and considered it theirs but the start of the marina seen a few years where there was a tug of war between boat owners and gulls for the ownership ....... the gulls lost.
Until ..... this year when they are coming not in the Nov to March months to shelter from the winter but now in June, to feed by the looks of it.
Either a) the feeding is easy with a plentyful supply of mussel in the marina or b) the feed at sea is difficult ..... any Ideas ?
Went down for a quick looksee and check over today only to find that I had no option other than a full wash up. There was crap and shell everywhere in lumps, spots, mounds and spread and trampled on.
Luckily its only up to a week old so washed off with a bit of detergent.
We used to have this bother when the marina was first etablished about 11 or 12 years ago. I figure the gulls used to come in for the winter months and hole up in Albert Edward Dock and considered it theirs but the start of the marina seen a few years where there was a tug of war between boat owners and gulls for the ownership ....... the gulls lost.
Until ..... this year when they are coming not in the Nov to March months to shelter from the winter but now in June, to feed by the looks of it.
Either a) the feeding is easy with a plentyful supply of mussel in the marina or b) the feed at sea is difficult ..... any Ideas ?
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