Meet the woman rescuing poorly seagull chicks from her back garden off her own dime

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00:00If people saw them like this, they wouldn't be misunderstood.

00:06People see them as taking their chips, taking their pasties, which they do,

00:11but we have enticed them inland with our attitude to putting waste out incorrectly.

00:18We've overfished the seas, so natural habitats are being overfished,

00:21so they're just making the most, they're very resourceful,

00:24they're coming inland to get what food they can.

00:27They remember, if you're nice to them,

00:30and I had to do some fairly traumatic treatments on this gull.

00:34I had to tube feed her, I had to give her antiburial tips,

00:37but she remembers me, I could get close to her.

00:43They're just very, very misunderstood birds.

00:46I've always rescued birds, since I was about 12 years old,

00:51various different types,

00:53and my first baby girl came to me about three or four years ago,

00:57which I reared and released.

01:00And then the next year, I had vets ringing me,

01:04as they were falling off roofs, because it was a very, very hot spring,

01:08and it just grew from there.

01:10My reputation has been able to rear and release, spread around,

01:14and I mean, I've had gulls from as far as North Wales and Towning come down.

01:21There's not many people rear baby gulls.

01:25They are very messy, they're very demanding,

01:28and they don't stay in question for long.

01:31But they are also critically endangered on the red list of conservations.

01:39Of all the baby birds, they are one of the messiest, stinkiest birds to rear.

01:45And they need constant cleaning,

01:47constantly get fed three times a day,

01:50and the amount of poop one baby girl can produce is unbelievable.

01:54But if I won the lottery, I'd be doing it full time.

02:00It's a very, very intense six to eight weeks.

02:04And then end of July, first week of August,

02:06it's like, that's it, I am never doing this again.

02:09Until next year.

02:10I'll see you next year.