Originally Posted By: Ducked
Originally Posted By: pandus13
Originally Posted By: RF Overlord
Originally Posted By: CT8
In the U.S. we have Pigeons Seagulls and drug addled "homeless"
Around here, seagulls are called "dump ducks" for their propensity to hang around landfills.
More like "fries hawks": for their perfect technique to pull a plate of fries out of the unsuspecting hands of tourists....
Back in Edinburgh, where the weather is uncharacteristically nice and people are eating outside, and saw a gull take a tourists freshly delivered filled croissant right off her table. Not much technique involved, just landed and scared her off. I THINK I'd have fought for it, but a full grown Herring Gull in your face is quite intimidating.
Think that's a new development locally. When I left the Edinburgh Herring Gull population was relatively timid, though the Aberdeen ones would take a fish supper off you on the wing and seemed to detect and specifically target drunks.
...That was my late outside lunch entertainment in Cancun,QR, Mexico.
Found the bird-less corner, took some fruit and a drink and watched the tourists getting "fried": saw couple scares, but most of it was pretty good technique on catching something on the fly eq. "catching a moving fish"