{"id":16269,"date":"2017-02-21T17:17:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T17:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=16269"},"modified":"2017-02-21T17:17:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T17:17:05","slug":"residents-in-cyncoed-complain-of-aggressive-seagulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/residents-in-cyncoed-complain-of-aggressive-seagulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents in Cyncoed complain of aggressive seagulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">People living on a street in Cyncoed in Cardiff are concerned about the number of aggressive seagulls in the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They say gulls attack residents on Farm Drive, leave droppings on cars and tear open recycling bags left on the street.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Residents told CJS News\u00a0the problem gets worse when gulls start nesting on the roofs of houses, as they become more territorial when their chicks hatch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Andy Stone, who lives on Farm Drive, said he had to defend his partner when a seagull attacked her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said &#8220;She was at the back trying to take some clothes off the line and a seagull was literally coming down and trying to stop her doing it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;So I used to stand outside with a brush and just try to push it away while she took the things off the line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The gulls are thought to come from Roath Park Lake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The RSPB says that gulls are legally protected and it is best to try to stop the birds nesting on roofs such as by\u00a0installing nets or\u00a0streamers to frighten them away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This can be done in winter before the birds start building nests in the spring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But once gulls have nested it is a criminal offence to interfere with or damage their nests, which can be punished by a fine of up to \u00a35,000 or a prison sentence of up to six months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The RSPB also said that conflict between gulls and humans can be preventing\u00a0by reducing the amount of food available for the birds in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People living on a street in Cyncoed in Cardiff are concerned about the number of aggressive seagulls in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[1234,1233,26,1235,1229,1236,1232,1231,923,1230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16269"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16291,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16269\/revisions\/16291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}