I live 5 miles from the coast, but have had in my garden in the past, hawks, all usual finches, ""boobs", aka t I t s", blackbirds, ring doves and wayward racing pigeons, even have a lovely little resident wren from close by who forrages.......plus the ubiquitous sea gulls and terns.......
In their infinite wisdom, Wyre Borough Council set up[ a stink tank to sit and stink about the rising population of gulls and how to get rid of them.............they decided that, in their infinite wisdom, if people stopped feeding them...............they'd just FLY AWAY and feed off fish and mussels like they used to do...........and as an added incentive to stop people feeding gulls in their back gardens.........although they didn't realise that we were feeding other birds, and being the greedy gits that gulls are, were nicking the food off the smaller birds..............some councillors thought it might be a good idea and incentive for neighbours who dobbed in other neighbours feeding gulls (who would then be fined £200.00 quid for this misdemeanour) to have a reduction in their council tax for every neighbour fined........
I just wonder what IQ level these town councillors have to reach before they are barred from sitting on such council panels, because they would then make sensible contributions to council matters and proceedings in meetings...............and here at WBC we couldn't have that...............it'd raise the tone of the town lol