As I was walking down Conwy Road into town this morning, I looked across to ASDA and the roof was covered with seagulls in various stages of development, (this year's model, last years' vintage etc), but when I looked across to the roofs of the buildings on Parc Llandudno, (Debenhams, BHS etc) there is hardly a bird to be seen. The roof on ASDA is a gently sloping area but the stores on Parc Llandudno have fairly steeply-pitched roofs with not many suitable areas to build nests. I think there might be a lesson to be learnt there for future developments in the town. Also the area around Bog Island was a favourite place this morning for chip and baguette-eating trippers who were feeding them. That is the time when you DO need to see the "Litter Police" but I assume they were still on the West Shore waiting to ambush unsuspecting dog owners to fine them for letting their pets run free there.
I can remember when I worked in the old ASDA store (which had a flat roof) we used to go up there and prick the eggs in the nests there, but you always had to have someone there with you with a big golf-type umbrella to protect you from the attacking gulls, which were very threatening and vicious.
There used to be an old military type gentleman who would come to the store, buy a couple of loaves, and then go out onto the car park and scatter them for the gulls which of course immediately descended en mass in a "feeding frenzy". When we used to ask him to stop he used to bellow "Do you know what it's like to be starving? I do, I was in a POW camp in the far east during the war". There is no answer to that but we used to try and reason with him and tell him that they were not in fact starving but greedy, to no avail, and eventually his wife would emerge from the store with her shopping, thank us for looking after him (again!) and take him off to their car. I would have liked to have seen the "Litter Police" dealing with him, there would have been only one winner!