A young gull caught on a high building at Hartlepool was reunited with his mom after an RSPCA rescue.
The bird was stuck in a narrow space in between a third-storey home and pillars fronting the roof of Park Tower in Park Road in Newcastle. The distressed young bird had actually been caught for 2 days and a homeowner, who had actually been feeding him, got in touch with the animal charity.
After getting consent from the homeowner, RSPCA inspector Krissy Raine showed her head for heights as she climbed up on a ladder and reached the bird, pulling him clear with a rescue internet and pole on July 21.
Krissy said: “This poor gull was in a really difficult position to reach as he had dropped down a v-shaped gap on the rooftop.
“The windows of the flat next to it are grilled off and while that was the best route of access we weren’t able to remove them because the building is listed.
“So we put some ladders up around the back of the building and I climbed up that way. While I was reaching out to the gull, I attracted the attention of the parents and they weren’t that happy to see me. They were dive bombing me!
“But I managed to hook the young one in my net. He was fine and I was soon able to release him and he was off in the air with his mother.”
The inspector says it is not the very first time that birds have actually been caught at this place. The RSPCA routinely handles reports of wildlife caught on hard-to-access high structures and those that have actually had bird deterrent netting set up.
In recent weeks the charity’s rescuers have actually been hectic releasing birds from netting at a number of high areas around the North East.
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A gull was spotted hanging upside down from the roofing of the Asda store in Coronation Street in South Shields after his legs got captured up in netting. Inspector Helen Nedley received help from fire and rescue officers, who accessed the roofing space, where they likewise discovered a recently established captured in the exact same netting on July 27. Both birds were required to regional animal rescue Pawz for Thought for rehab.
Again with the help of the fire and rescue service, inspector Nedley rescued a kittiwake stranded in netting positioned high up on a building in Sandhill at Newcastle on August 5.
