Silver Gull in my yard.

["shorty via Canberrabirds " <>]

Ah but it was time for lunch so Chicken snitty and chips was decided 🙃

Shorty

On Sun, Nov 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

The falcon-avoidance interpretation seems likely, Shorty.  But, cooking chips  -  isn’t cooking chips an elaborate method of attracting a gull?  Could you have quickly made a sandwich, nothing extravagant, perhaps just peanut butter or vegemite, then eaten most of the sandwich and thrown the crust towards the gull?

 

From: Canberrabirds <> On Behalf Of shorty via Canberrabirds
Sent: Sunday, 2 November 2025 2:05 PM
To: Canberra birds <>
Subject: [Canberrabirds] Silver Gull in my yard.

 

Well that was bizarre. I live under the flight path of Silver gull's going back and forth to the Lake/Tip so I see them fly over often but today I spotted a white bird flying low and landed in my yard, it was a Silver Gull. Seconds later I spotted a Peregrine Falcon and thought this may be the reason it landed. I checked on the bird and could see feathers out of place on it's wing and it just kept running away from me as I tried to catch it but kept going under the house. I went inside to cook some chips to lure it but when I went to the back of my house it flew up over the fence and away. Perhaps the wing was not badly injured and it just landed to seek refuge from the Falcon?

 

Shorty

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