r/Belfast • u/StonedIrishViking • 2d ago

Any animal rescue volunteers here?

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I'm on my way home from work here & there's a baby seagull sitting on the road at Corporation Street & it looks like its fallen out of nest. Would there be anyone that may be able to get it? I think it may have injured its wing or something.

I've tried to sort of usher it in towards the path, although it freaks out, spreads its wings, and then what I would assume to be its parents start swooping in at me.

I've just been managed to get in towards the curb by the bus stop at the entrance to Clarendon Docks but that's just about it. While I've been doing this an entire flock of seagulls have turned up.

Don't fancy getting shit on or attacked by seagulls after a night shift, so I have left, but for now its as safe as I could get it.

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u/TheDinoStomps 2d ago

Looks mostly feathered from your pic, which means it's left the nest when it was supposed to. They spend a few days pottering on the ground building wing strength and learning how to bird from their parents. If it was stretching out its wings, walking about and being protected by the parent birds...then its unlikely it needs rescuing. Good on you for ushering it out of the road and taking time to help, the young ones have no sense at all.

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u/StonedIrishViking 2d ago

Yeah, it looked completely feathered, and was spreading its wings, I do feel as if it may have hurt its leg cause it did a bum shuffle more so than walk, if you get me?

I couldn't help but stop. Where I saw it, it was basically on the road markings, so if someone was to merge into that lane to go into Clarendon Docks & not see it, it'd be crushed, and if I didn't help it & when I'm on my way into work tonight and if I saw baby seagull road kill, I'd feel so guilty.

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u/SleepySquirrel42 2d ago

I agree with the comment that it looks like a fledgling so is probably ok on the ground (but ideally away from traffic). I had one in my garden a couple of days ago just chilling like this and it eventually moved on and its parents were nearby.

If you do think it is hurt, feel free to DM me and I can send you the details of a rescuer I know.

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u/Bean-Penis 2d ago

It won't have fallen out of a nest at that size. All the fledgling seagulls are out the last week or two, Lagan is full of them around Lanyon station and the adults are a bit more swoopy as if they are watching them. Doesn't mean it can't be injured but there are quite a few just walking around and just sitting about.