What Goes Around Comes Around
I just have to share this! I'm an Aiberdeen quine so I am familiar with the brass neck of the gulls of the Granite City. The street my folks live on usually has one seagull "chick" each year and woe betide those who dare to try and walk to their homes when the "chick" is on the ground!
Now the City of Aberdeen has been complaining about seagulls for years, they have even undertaken some pretty questionable actions to try and halt the birds from breeding. You won't need to have known me for long to know what I think about such disgusting tactics - and my opinions are based on more than just a treehugger's love of all things living.
But first I will share the story.
Front page news on the BBC website today is a tale about one of the infamous Aberdeen seagulls. It was originally just a written article, but the BBC have since updated the story to link to video footage and mobile phone footage!To highlight the importance of this placement - Scottish news rarely hits the Beeb's front page. We only seem to get there when our election system comes under question, or when inept folk fail to kill us with their car bombs and find themselves meeting the great John Smeaton...
Anyway, watch the seagull video - it's brilliant!
And here's why I think shooting at gulls, or their eggs, or interfering in any way with them when they are nesting is vile.
The seagulls (and technically there are several species that populate Aberdeen so the term is generic) only live in the city because the residents provide them with enough food to do so. My experience is that Aberdeen gulls do seem to be larger than the gulls found elsewhere and that is either to do with the magic of legend, or it is to do with the sheer amount of food they are provided with.
Now, I am definitely not saying that Aberdonians are more prone to littering than residents of other places. Far from it - I live in Edinburgh where the residents seem to have an almost total disregard for the idea of removing their dog shit from the pavements, gardens and parks. This is not helped by the negligence of the council, led by tree killer Ewan Aitken, and their failure to provide those red dog poo bins on poles to make life a little easier for the irresponsible canine keepers.
The fact is that if the gulls didn't have plenty to eat, then they wouldn't live in Aberdeen in such numbers. It could be argued that they are simply helping to ease the burden on the landfills by eating Aberdonians leftovers. Sam is blatant proof of this theory - he didn't learn that shiny crisp packets contain yummy food without the help of the dummies who drop their empties on the ground all over the place. He has just used his canny mind to figure out a less random way to feed himself ~ and he is to be congratulated on his generosity in sharing his spoils with the pigeons! He deserves an award 
Speaking of awards, just after I gleefully handed out my nominations to Rockin' Girl Bloggers, I got a message that I have been given a Heart Rose Award. I'm very touched - and Thank You to Zephyr1 over at Climate of Our Future
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i like the theory of why the Seagull (Latin Name; Kebabius Fuelledum ShiteHawkius Petrodactyl Maximus) thrives in the ‘Deen.
But it falls down when you consider how chip, curry, kebab and deep fired pizza strewn Glasgow is.
Mind you, Glasgow is the home of the giant one-legged pigeon (Latin Name: Pigeon Monopedius Flying Rattius)
Em, that’ll be deep FRIED pizza.
Ok, you will need to enlighten those of us on the other side of Atlantic about deep-fried pizza
. Here in Chicago we have deep-dish pizza, which is basically an inch slab of melted cheese and sauce sitting on a pie crust. I’m not sure if that is the same thing, or you actually drop something in a fryer over there. Sorry to take this post off-topic. Our particular litter problem is with empty chip bags … and we have gulls too.
heheheh
I have on one occasion enjoyed a Chicago deep dish pizza. I think it was the best pizza I have ever eaten. It is lucky that I do not live in Chicago….
Deep fried pizza is nothing like that. Sadly it looked better before Misssy corrected her spelling.
If you have ever been to a fish n chip shop over here, you will know that most of the fare is fried in huge vats of oil. Well, sometimes chip shop owners decide to deep fry thing other than chips, battered fish, black puddings and what-not.
The deep-fried pizza sizzles in the same hall of fame as the deep-fried Mars Bar. Both, I believe, were invented in Strathclyde..
I have eaten neither.
I am a fan of pizzas of all kinds, but deep fried would probably test those limits.
They have services now that will deliver Chicago pizzas through the mail, but sadly I think it’s only within the US. So you may have to wait until your state-side before you can try it again.