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Speaker 1: Now apparently the seagulls have been talking to you about.

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Speaker 1: The seagulls are a major problem in christ Church, particularly

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Speaker 1: around New Region Street. They've been there for five years,

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Speaker 1: been nesting in the foundations of a nearby demolished building.

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Speaker 1: Now that's causing havoc for the local cafes and restaurants

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Speaker 1: because the birds dive bombing the customers and stealing food

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Speaker 1: off the tables and living their poop absolutely everywhere. Bell

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Speaker 1: Cafe is on New Regent Street and its manager Casey Alderson,

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Speaker 1: it's with us now, Hey, Casey, Hi, just sounds horrific.

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Speaker 1: Are they actually dive bombing the kids? Uh?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, basically, so if there's any food scraps anywhere, they

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Speaker 2: will immediately dive bomb and take whatever they can get.

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Speaker 2: But also small children don't freak them out that much,

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Speaker 2: so they're not hesitant to swoop down in front of

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Speaker 2: a small child and take whatever they have in front

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Speaker 2: of their play author.

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Speaker 1: No, okay, So I mean, is this getting worse? Do

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Speaker 1: you think it's a trend of it getting worse or

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Speaker 1: is it a little bit like a mast season like

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Speaker 1: every now and again, just got a really bad year,

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Speaker 1: then it kind of goes back to normal.

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Speaker 2: I believe that it's getting worse because the seagulls migrate

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Speaker 2: to the same place every year to nest, and so

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Speaker 2: because they've been in the area the last couple of years,

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Speaker 2: they just keep coming back and bringing you when else

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Speaker 2: with them.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now is it weird to you that the council

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Speaker 1: can do nothing about this because seagulls are protected A.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the seagulls are protected from their nesting season,

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Speaker 2: which is October through to February, so for the rest

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Speaker 2: of the year, something can be done about it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you want done about it? Casey?

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Speaker 2: Well, ideally I would really love for the seagulls to

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Speaker 2: be back within nature or go towards the water, or

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Speaker 2: just kind of be out of urban areall.

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Speaker 1: How do you get a seagull to go back towards

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Speaker 1: the water? Do you just go stand there, go and

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Speaker 1: go that way? That way?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I wish it would be that simple. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: we need to kind of put a proportion in place

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Speaker 2: so then next year when they come around to nest,

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Speaker 2: they can go somewhere that isn't among.

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Speaker 1: Hospitality businesses, what do you reckon?

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Speaker 2: You do?

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Speaker 1: What do you do? Put up some knitting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, there's a whole bunch of preventative measures that

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Speaker 2: we can try to put into place, but we have

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Speaker 2: been dealing with us for the last four years so

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Speaker 2: so far nothing we've thought of has actually worked. So

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Speaker 2: any ideas would be very helpful.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, all of the ideas that I would

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Speaker 1: suggest to you, Casey, would be ideas that will probably

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Speaker 1: get me in trouble with Doc, so we're not going

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Speaker 1: to have them on the air, but thank you for that.

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Speaker 1: That's Casey Orderson, Bell Cafe, New Regent Street. For more

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