Seagull chick doing my head in
Hey all, not sure if this is common or not but for the first time in my life, I've found myself in a position where I've the single noisiest entity known to mankind stranded in my garden.
Three weeks ago, this obnoxious fecker of a seagull declared my house's chimney his home. Without a care in the world but to bother myself, not an ounce of effort went into the nest. Inevitably, one of this asshole's chicks fell off the roof and is now stranded in my garden.
The chick/fledgling is grand, he's been pottering about the garden, bathing in the water I've left out for him while drinking it (can't complain about his sub-par table manners, poor lad fell out of his house mere weeks after birth), flapping his wings and all, but more to the point, will not shut the fuck up.
Gulls which I assume to be the parents fly down fairly infrequently and feed. I've read online I'm not to feed fallen gull chicks, but I've left water. He's hardly attended, as the parents seem to only be caring for the other chick who remains on my bloody chimney. This, naturally, is quite distressing to the abandoned chick, who was quite a lot to say about this.
Wondering if this sort of carry on has happened with any of ye and could get some advice on the matter. Chick is absolutely not safe from foxes, is actively attracting them due to the fact he's performing Beethoven's fifth at 4am, and cannot be returned to the chimney, as I would be murdered by an unpredictable tag team of seagulls and gravity.