Arial footage over a colony of Lesser Black Backed Gulls filmed in Lancashire.
Now that the refuge tips are capped stopping a ready supply of food, Gulls are relying more and more on hunting rather than scavenging. What impact do you think this number of gulls hunting and nesting on a SSSI will have on the Red Listed birds that inhabit that area?
Also hundreds of thousands of pounds have been spent on repairing damage caused by polution from the industrial revolution, that work is now being undone by the the large deposit of guano, the result of which input huge amounts of nitrogen and phospherous compounds that do not suit the usual flora of the uplands, plants are also removed for nesting material and are destroyed in boundary disputes. All of these actions are affecting the stability of the peat and water quality.
