Seagulls – like all pests can be removed by simply breaking their cycle which by observation is not unsimilar to rats etc (egg, larva, pupa, and adult) – but I categorise seagulls as follows;

·         Colonies seek weakly or unprotected areas

·         Colonise

·         Roost

·         Sex

·         Nest

·         Egg

·         Hatch

·         fledge 

Seagulls also have a language associated with each.

The laser is the ideal tool to break these cycles and remove them.

The seagull colony can be considered an entity of its own.   The strength of each individual member is dependent on the colony;  The members relies on each other for warning, protection and egg duties etc.  Detering the major part of the colony elsewhere will increase the likelihood that any remainers, once their chicks are fledged, will leave and return to the colony.

It is very simple to deter seagulls with a Green laser, these are easily available from the web – look for 532 green.  The green laser triggers the seagulls flight/fight response and pavlovian conditioning will train the seagulls to go elsewhere.

The best deterrent time is dawn or dusk in January to May before they have nested and if they are around from August to December – an area can easily be cleared and the seagulls will go elsewhere.  To use the laser outside of these times is self-defeating. 

·         The laser is less sensitive outside of the dawn to dusk period because of ambient light dilution. 

·         Importantly following egg laying  the female becomes sacrificial and will stand its ground against the laser;  This desensitizes the birds so that the Pavolovian conditioning becomes extinct

·         To use against chicks will prevent them learning to fly and they will be abandoned

Of course use the  laser lawfully and legally :

·         Don’t point at cars, airplanes, people, animals, into  houses etc.

·         Don’t use whilst there are chicks.

Generally people have an aversion to seagulls because of their scavenging, noise, soiling, attacks, rubbish spilling etc – but remember some folk like them, feed them and make pets of them and so understanding is also called for. 

Party Wall Act – The Act suspends common law (but remember much common law has been supplanted by statute) but where not The Surveyors may deter seagulls if required and if so a Green laser is recommended.

Building Surveys – If you have purchased a property which is subject to Seagull nuisance and your surveyor has not advised you they are negligent.