Angry ‘dive-bombing’ seagull is ‘terrorising’ children, dogs and runners

Residents are being targeted by a seagull that’s out for blood (Picture: Getty Images / BPM Media)

A lethal seagull is wreaking absolute havoc across a neighbourhood in north London and ‘attacking people on the daily’.

No one in Crouch End is safe from the aggressively territorial bird who is making people’s lives a flapping misery.

Small children, runners and even dogs are reportedly being targeted by the notorious creature.

The seagull has bedded in on the roof of a house and has been carrying out regular ‘dive-bombing’ attacks on locals and other animals wandering the streets below. 

Residents say the gull is ‘terrorising’ everyone in its sight, with one person even losing their shoe as they frantically tried to escape its clutches.

One said the level of ‘fear is rising’ within the community, with people left scared to walk through the area near the gull, which has been pictured perching atop a chimney stack eyeing up its next victims.

‘Admittedly, this sounds comical, but it is not,’ a resident said in an alarming Facebook post.

The guilty party stands proudly on top of a roof in Crouch End (Picture: BPM Media)

The seagull has been causing chaos in the streets of Crouch End (Picture: BPM Media)

‘It has come to my attention in recent weeks that in the area where Ferme Park Road meets Weston Park, there is fear rising, and it’s the affect (sic) of a terrorising seagull.

‘I have witnessed it multiple times nose dive at passers by, with full intention of striking had they not had ninja like reflexes. 

‘I heard it went for a dog last week and tonight I saw it strike a runner and later a near miss with a small child!

‘Even the other seagulls were p*****, and subsequently went in to attack it, but to no avail, he’s still at large. Enough is enough, what can we do?!’

Several people say they have been the target of the seagull’s many attacks (Picture: Getty Images)

Others also shared their own terrifying encounters with the abrasive seagull, with one writing: ‘I live across the road from this and they have been attacking people on the daily. 

‘Someone lost their shoe running away from it. They have little babies in the roof that we can see bobbing their heads up so they are protecting them. 

‘They circle everyone and then attack.’

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A second agreed and said: ‘It has attacked my sister twice in the early morning and then actually came for me at about 7.30pm today and also took a dive at my first floor window today to get into the house.’

Meanwhile, a third person added: ‘It had a swipe at me and my dog at the weekend. We both walked away unscathed but shook nonetheless.’

Others were quick to point out that little can be done to quell the violence because the gull is protected by law from being moved.

It’s illegal to harm or move a seagull – so there’s pretty much nothing anyone can do about it (Picture: Getty Images)

The resident said: ‘Used to have this problem when I lived in Archway many years ago… Unfortunately they are a protected bird so not much can be done.’

According to the RSPCA, it is illegal to ‘intentionally take, damage or destroy the nest of any wild bird while that nest is in use or being built’.

Laws state that all wild birds in England, Scotland and Wales are protected under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981.

RSPCA advice says: ‘It is also an offence to take or destroy an egg of any wild bird or to kill, injure or take them.’

For now, it seems the ongoing Battle of Crouch End will remain a one way fight in favour of the tetchy seagull. 

It’s been a wild couple of months for seagulls, with people in one seaside town labelling them ‘worse than rats’.

A flock were also filmed trying to break through a car windscreen to steal McDonald’s, while others are getting ‘high on spice’ after making off with drug stashes.

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