I, along with some others can understand where you are coming from however in Saturdays Daily Express page 19 Richard Finnigan along with his wife Judy wrote a piece regarding Seagulls attacking dogs, pedestrians and children being attacked, defecated on etc. Should we be saying Nah nothing we can do ?? NO..We would poison,trap,gas and shoot the vermin and we would besiege the town hall if the council refused to do so. So why the current municipal squeamishness about dealing with Britain's growing seagull menace ?. People are already taking the law into their own hands as there have been reported cases of poisoning and if air rifles aren't being quietly deployed in private operations then !!!. As a nation we are calcified by self-doubt and uncertainty in absurdedly straightforward matters as these, David Cameron has called for a "big conversation" on seagulls I'd make it a small one and keep it to two words CULL THEM. Now Fifer, If he can write in a national newspaper advocating the killing of a protected species we should have the same leeway with raptors.