[ad_1] Residents in a Cornish town have been warned that their post may be delayed due to dive-bombing seagulls attacking postal workers. This is the second consecutive summer that the issue has arisen, with the protective parent birds causing havoc for Royal Mail staff. Seagulls are known for their territorial behaviour, particularly when it comes…
[ad_1] Adaptable: Seagulls’ natural food sources are in short supply. Photo / Getty Images In the European summer, a new pastime is gaining strength: plotting the demise of an endangered species. How to get rid of the highly adaptive seagull – most types of gull being protected – is a civic issue to rival pot holes….
[ad_1] Dear readers, to those who have quite rightly concluded in this silliest of silly seasons that the country is going to the dogs, apologies. It is time for a new metaphor of decline; Britain is for the birds. And I’m not even referring to Swiftmania; if only our ills really could be cured with…
[ad_1] Royal Mail has written to residents of a coastal town apologising for delivery delays blaming dive-bombing seagulls for the inconvenience. Householders in Liskeard, Cornwall, have received a letter from the Royal Mail warning them that the aggressive birds have been hampering postal deliveries in the area. Ryan Lean, the Royal Mail customer operations manager…
[ad_1] POSTIES are no longer delivering mail to a street in Helensburgh amid attacks by “aggressive” seagulls. Terrified staff have halted deliveries to a row of houses in the town after reports of injuries and posties staying in their van out of fear of the birds. 3 Seagulls have been terrorising postiesCredit: Simon Jones –…