Territorial fly tipping. (1 Viewer)

I work on a large industrial complex populated by many hundreds of Gulls using various rooftops for roosting and nesting, for three days and nights now a pair of Herring Gulls have been involved in a sort of fly tipping competition, one picks a twig and drops it on the road, the other either gets a another bit of something and drops it or picks up the other birds twig walks a couple of steps and drops that, when one walks off to find something the other follows it closely and vice versa.

so now there is a 2 square metre area of road covered in twigs, string, plastic, pebbles and other rubbish, the weird thing is you can approach and stand right over them and they stand their ground or actually flare up and come at you, really really obsessive about it.

Sounds like a case of the nest-building instinct going badly awry. Is there traffic on the road?

The road is non public, used by fork trucks and Delivery tankers, something comes along every 10 minutes or so.

Back at work weds morning and i'm curious to see if they're still there.