The wars of the sky.

North Pennines Moorland Group

Many do not realise the damage seagulls can do to ground nesting birds during their nesting season. Larger gulls will hunt along the moors looking for nests and chicks, often when they do find chicks they will eat the whole brood as seagulls don't often travel alone so once one gull alerts that they have found a meal it becomes a feeding frenzy. The wader parents are helpless to these attacks once they start. Wader parents will try to mob these gulls before they get anywhere near their nests to prevent this happening.