# See-ya, gull. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 2, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-ya-gull/346745 "2006-03-02T13:06:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2006, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-ya-gull/346745/21 "2006-03-02T21:45:37Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > **Lissa** : I hope you praised him. I’ve had 3 cats and 2 dogs. The best mouser I had was a sweet little silly pound puppy. I neither praised nor corrected him. I didn’t praise him because I don’t want to encourage him to eat mice-- you never know if one has been poisoned or has worms, or whatever. Not good for him. I didn’t correct him because it’s a natural thing for an animal to do. All that goes through their minds is: “Creature smaller than me = dinner!” Correcting him would have confused the hell out of him. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-ya-gull/346745/22 "2006-03-03T00:52:25Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Holy cow! There’s four now? It’s been a while since I worked in Saint Paul, but it was a big deal to have just one nesting at the trade center. Adapt or die I guess. I remember when it was neat to see a Canadian Goose. There’s a pair of falcons that nest each year by the Ford Bridge. I fish below the dam there quite a bit, and it is _tres_ cool to watch them swoop down and blast a pigeon. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-ya-gull/346745/23 "2006-03-03T00:54:20Z")
> [@Rysdad](#): > > There’s a pair of falcons that nest each year by the Ford Bridge. I fish below the dam there quite a bit, and it is _tres_ cool to watch them swoop down and blast a pigeon. I live 2 blocks from the Ford bridge, and I never knew! Cool. Now if I could only train them to take care of the stray cat problem… ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-ya-gull/346745/24 "2006-03-03T01:31:45Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > I live 2 blocks from the Ford bridge, and I never knew! Cool. Now if I could only train them to take care of the stray cat problem… If you look on the big cement wall, above the lock and dam and below the Soldier’s Home, you’ll see a big box mounted up there toward the downstream end. That’s Chateau le Falcone. Sometimes they perch on that big smokestack on the other side of the river and then swoop from there. Them suckers is _fast!_. Also, you might occasionally find them perched in the trees just in front of that scenic overlook on the East River Road right next to the Ford Plant. I pulled in there once to check out the flow of the river, and when I looked up, I noticed I was about 6 feet away from a peregrine falcon. Cool looking bird. (By the way, if you happen to see a gray, boxy houseboat with an Evinrude outboard pulled up on that island below the dam this summer, that’s me.) ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-ya-gull/346745/25 "2006-03-03T01:50:34Z")
> [@JustAnotherGeek](#): > > I absolutely cannot walk past a flock of gulls without going “_Mine! Mine. MINE!minemine!_” > 😃 So I am the only one who heard the seagulls saying “Mate?” in an Australian accent? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-ya-gull/346745/26 "2006-03-03T02:41:32Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > So I am the only one who heard the seagulls saying “Mate?” in an Australian accent? I think so. There was a bald eagle in my yard yesterday. I wish I could have encouraged him to take out a crow or two. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-ya-gull/346745/27 "2006-03-03T12:29:40Z")
> [@Sal Ammoniac](#): > > I’m jealous. I’ve always wanted to see a hawk bring down its prey. But I’m curious about the motivation of the guy who threw a rock at the thing. What’s the deal? Was it, like, an endangered seagull? I assume he thought he was standing up for the little guy. The gull looked pretty pathetic. He didn’t know what hit him on that first strike. Gotta let nature run it’s course though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-ya-gull/346745.md?page=1)