Getting in a flap! Moment terrified father, 38, sprints down street being attacked by divebombing seagull while on FaceTime to his wife
- Ryan Price, 38, was chased to his home by the bird, filmed by wife Bethany, 25
- A family of territorial seagulls has nested in the street in Wallasey, The Wirral
- Elderly residents are too scared to leave their homes because of the angry birds
- One man was knocked over and cut when a seagull flew into the back of his head
Footage shows the moment a man was chased down the street after being dive-bombed by a furious seagull.
Ryan Price, 38, was walking back to his home in Wallasey in The Wirral when he filmed the angry bird chasing him down his road.
Videos taken by him and his wife Bethany, 25, standing on their front door as the seagull perched on a lamppost before swooping down after him.
The footage shows the dad of two sprinting away in panic down the street while Bethany howls with laughter from the doorway.
Ryan said the couple had been having problems with seagulls on their street for weeks.
Ryan Price, 38, had to flee from the angry gull back to his front door where his wife Bethany, 25, was filming him
The aggressive seagulls have been terrorising residents, with the elderly too scared to go outside
Ryan and Bethany said they and their neighbours in Wallasey in The Wirral have been dealing with the seagulls for weeks, but added the incident was ‘hilarious’
He said: ‘There’s been a pair of gulls nesting on our neighbour’s roof for weeks.
‘My wife rang me while I was at work to say that she thought the baby had fallen off the roof and that she had seen the parents attack six different people walking past.
‘I hadn’t seen the baby so I thought I’d risk my luck walking to the shop and decided to FaceTime Bethany to see if she wanted anything.
‘As soon as I got near to the house the seagull launched itself at me and wouldn’t leave me alone.
‘Bethany was only up the road, so she ran outside and started filming me while I was being chased. She found the whole thing hilarious.’
Ryan can be seen in the footage trying to avoid being hit by the seagull as it swooped down at him from a lamppost
The 38 year-old had to duck to avoid being struck by the seagull before sprinting back to his house
David Poulton, another resident in the area, said the seagulls had attacked him and knocked him over, forcing him to take cover in a nearby neighbour’s house
The family of seagulls in the area has been a nightmare for locals in recent weeks, with many elderly residents too scared to leave their homes because of the birds.
Gulls are usually more aggressive when their families are threatened, including when one of their chicks has fallen out of the nest.
Other residents with similar stories responded to Ryan when he posted the video of the seagulls online.
Danny Atherton, who lives off Poulton Road, was picking his niece up from school when he was also attacked by the birds.
He said: ‘I was just walking along the street with my headphones in and then I see these two women waving their arms at me.
‘Next minute I see this shadow come behind me and something knock into the back of my head which made me fall over.
‘I turn around expecting to see someone, but it was a seagull. Then it started chasing me, so I was running backward and forwards trying to get rid of it.’
Danny said he dropped and cracked his mobile phone and has also been left with cuts to his head.
He said: ‘Luckily a woman let me run into her hallway to escape.
‘Then the seagull started attacking other people, so I took the opportunity to make my escape.’
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