Same here, except I haven't seen crows stealing eggs. We've observed a herring gull mother protecting her eggs until they've hatched. We never saw her leaving the nest. At most we've observed other seagulls being chased away by the partner.
There are 2 common seagulls here who get very excited sometimes. They fly around and make short calls in sync with eachother. Last week I saw them chasing a hooded crow around just outside my window, but I'm kinda unsure if it's play since I've seen them sit relatively close to each other without caring.
But for some very strange reason, one of the hooded crow seems to HATE me. If I walk down the street here he'll follow and scream at me. He'll sometimes sit outside my window from afar and watch me too. He'll follow me as far as his territory goes (around 300 meters in diameter)
It's the strangest thing that's ever happened to me. It's like I did something really bad to him.
I've gone out to see him a few times out of curiosity. I tried giving him food and he does take it eventually, but it doesn't seem like that's what he's there for.
Geese have an angry-defending-the-nest mode and an eating-food mode that are mutually exclusive.
Eating food overrides, which means with just a small handful of goose food you can wander up to a nest and do whatever you like without being threatened by mother goose.
Beware the moment the food runs out, defend-the-nest mode is reenabled and you'll get viciously attacked.
Kinda odd - I guess no predators think to make use of this by bringing some food!
There are 2 common seagulls here who get very excited sometimes. They fly around and make short calls in sync with eachother. Last week I saw them chasing a hooded crow around just outside my window, but I'm kinda unsure if it's play since I've seen them sit relatively close to each other without caring.
But for some very strange reason, one of the hooded crow seems to HATE me. If I walk down the street here he'll follow and scream at me. He'll sometimes sit outside my window from afar and watch me too. He'll follow me as far as his territory goes (around 300 meters in diameter)
It's the strangest thing that's ever happened to me. It's like I did something really bad to him.
I've gone out to see him a few times out of curiosity. I tried giving him food and he does take it eventually, but it doesn't seem like that's what he's there for.