So, I went to the beach with my boyfriend and his family yesterday. It was some place an hour away that has a beach by a camp grounds. After a few hours at the beach we walked back to the campsite where my boyfriend's "dad" (mom's boyfriend, but we're going to call him dad for simplicity) found a secluded area behind some trees. It's apparently his favorite camping spot. So anyway, there's a little grill there, he got some wood and a fire going, we're sitting on the picnic tables with the best kielbasa I've ever tasted, and then the seagulls start to show up. Whenever I go to the beach, I love feeding the seagulls. So we start cutting up some more kielbasa for them, and next thing any of us know there's about twenty in front of us.
Then I notice this one seagull with a long piece of string attached to its foot flying around in the sky. I point this out to my boyfriend, who in turn points it out to his mom and dad. His dad gets worried for the seagull, and decides we better catch it and untie the string. It was easy enough with the long ass piece of string at the end. We lured it in with some food, stepped on the string to prevent its escape, then his dad picks up the seagull and we begin unraveling the string.
Okay, so the string goes around both his feet, around his neck, and into his mouth. My boyfriend is standing there, carefully pulling the string, the seagull looks like it's choking, I'm freaking out that we are about to pull out the poor thing's stomach, and you know what happens next? My boyfriend makes one final yank, the seagull's neck stretches far out, his mouth opens wide... AND AN ENTIRE CHICKEN LEG POPS RIGHT OUT AT THE END OF THE STRING. Not eaten at all, apparently gulped and swallowed whole.
Well, we let go of the seagull, give him a piece of kielbasa for his troubles, and he gets well away from us. We think a couple of kids were trying to catch crabs using that as bait and were careless about where that thing ended up so the seagull was able to find it. I'm pretty sure we saved the seagull's life, though. I don't know what would have happened if it tried digesting that chicken leg attached to the string, and I'm not sure I want to find out.
TL;DR - We found a seagull with a string attached to it. We captured the seagull. Turns out the string went all the way into it's mouth. We pulled out the string, and a whole chicken leg popped out. The seagull is fine now.
Anyway, I think PETA would be proud :)
...Or not, I don't know what PETA would think, they're crazy.
grats
which beach were you at?
Quote from: Echo on August 13, 2009, 10:47:00 AM
grats
which beach were you at?
Rocky Neck. It's a State Park Beach, so it has a camping site and forest, along with the beach.
Awesome! Even though I hunt, I find it nice that you saved a seagull from a horrible situation.
And I agree that PETA is crazy.
Cool story....um...sis?
Wouldn't be surprised at a whole chicken leg popping out. I mean, that's how birds eat, they swallow poop whole. xD Cool story though.
I remember I found a robin with a broken leg one time.
We helped it out and took care of it for a day.
Then the next I went to check on him, and he was gone. ;___;
That sounds like it would be amusing to see when the chicken leg popped out. >.>
*YARK*
oh hey a chicken leg
A bird nested in our garage and we let her stay, and a few months later three beautiful baby birds were born. Then after another week Mr. Snake came along and ate them all.
A few weeks ago I was at Boundary Waters (MN/Canada border), and we caught and cleaned our own fish every night. There would always be these two seagulls waiting around by us, obviously drawn by the fish. We threw the extra fish/carcasses away after we cleaned them, and the seagulls tried eating the whole thing.
They couldn't, but we lol'd.
Great. You saved an irritating rat with wings that has probably been one of the thousands that has been digging through my trash and poopting all over my car.
*claps*
Quote from: Phaze on August 13, 2009, 07:27:02 PM
Great. You saved an irritating rat with wings that has probably been one of the thousands that has been digging through my trash and poopting all over my car.
*claps*
You live near the beach, then?
Quote from: Echo on August 13, 2009, 04:38:07 PM
A bird nested in our garage and we let her stay, and a few months later three beautiful baby birds were born. Then after another week Mr. Snake came along and ate them all.
Aw. My friend had baby bunnies, then a hawk came along and ate them. They know it was a hawk because one day they found a dead bunny on their roof.
haha same happened to a friend of mine
Quote from: Dog Food on August 13, 2009, 08:59:01 PM
You live near the beach, then?
Two blocks. And we have plenty of the little poop holes to spare.