Seagull chick in my garden, what am I gonna do?

I assume from your down turned emoji that you didn’t eat it.
Still problem solved eh and now you may know why the parents weren’t bothered, quite likely they realised it was doomed.

Would you like 3 more?

The seagull chick has sadly not lived through the night 🙁

What happened?

We don’t know what happened, we just went out in the garden first thing and it was lying dead at the edge of one of our flower beds. A tiny bit of blood on its neck but none of the carnage – feathers all over the place etc. – you’d expect from a fox or cat attack. Maybe another adult seagull went for it.

All a bit sad and I wish I had tried to get it back on the roof. Perhaps it would have just ended up in our garden again anyway.

That is indeed sad news. It is very easy to berate gulls in urban environments but it’s worth pointing out that herring gulls in particular (the most likely protagonist in this tale) are in decline. We might not love them but we will miss them when they’ve gone
We have lots in our street and every year the pitchforks are out but I’m glad to say reason has prevailed and after a couple of weeks calm is restored.

What happened?

It’s just resting

vintagewino
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We don’t know what happened, we just went out in the garden first thing and it was lying dead at the edge of one of our flower beds. A tiny bit of blood on its neck but none of the carnage – feathers all over the place etc. – you’d expect from a fox or cat attack. Maybe another adult seagull went for it.

All a bit sad and I wish I had tried to get it back on the roof. Perhaps it would have just ended up in our garden again anyway.

A fox would have been off with it, cubs to feed this time of year, more likely another gull or next doors cat, you did the right thing by leaving it, the parents normally protect and feed at that point, but gull chick survival is patchy at best, just nature, humans have it easy but moan the most.

I saw a huge seagull today. It was big enough to be a D gull. But not quite big enough to be an eagle.

I had a young pigeon hiding in bushes and behind the shed for a couple of days, the dog found it fascinating, she just stared at it. The bird was quite characterful.

We heard a bit of a commotion during the night, no sign of it today. Just a pile of feathers in the garden, presumably the noise was just it flapping to take off and the feathers where just the last of its baby feathers.