Seagull gets stuck in fishing wire between trees (UK)

[Donna]

November 01, 2009


A seagull had to be put down after it became tangled in fishing wire between two trees in Palmer Park.

The bird had got so stuck in the wire the fire fighters were unable to help and had to call the RSPCA to shoot the bird down.

James Blake, crew manager for Dee Road, said: “We are unable to take the engines into Palmer Park because of the chalk mines underneath so it was quite a tricky situation.

“It was about 30ft up and the wire was all wrapped around it, the wire was everywhere and the RSPCA had to get a gun out to put it down.

“The wire was like fishing wire but it could have been from kites or something like that, although there was no-one out flying kites at the time.�

The fire crew were called out at 11.30am on Friday.