Avian flu in my garden

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  This poor guy has been staggering around our garden for a couple of days now. He’s seemingly alert and responsive and has a decent appetite but is also completely unbalanced and uncoordinated. He’s not as pristine as he should be, though I’ve seen worse in pics.

I don’t know too much about how much gulls should be eating/ pooing every day, nor what colour should cause alarm.

Of course, he could simply be injured but we’ll never know. None of the local wildlife rescue organisations will take gulls due to the current epidemic (herring gulls around Sussex are particularly suffering from this virus). Best they could suggest was to take him to a vet, but on the basis that any local vet prepared to treat a gull just now would almost certainly euthanise it outside the surgery.

So our best plan is to keep feeding and watering him, hose down the poo, remove bird feeders and keep our distance, all in the slim hope he’ll pull through. The wildlife rescue lady reckoned to give him to the end of the weekend and if no improvement, take him to the vet.

It’s desperately sad, really. All suggestions welcome, of course, though it seems no official body will be interested unless and until (s)he snuffs it.