GULLS CAUSE HAVOC
Pond warden Philip Hobden said gulls had been swooping on the pond and eating the ducklings as they emerged from their shells.
Speaking at a Hailsham Town Council meeting he told members how 45 ducklings had been born and gulls ate 43.
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Hide AdHe said: 'One survived and I took one home with me and hand reared it.'
He said there had been upwards of 25 young seagulls in and around the pond.
He asked for 8 to buy materials to build a pen next year but the committee voted him in the region of 90 so a large one with a run could be built.
Next year he also wanted to collect two or three duck eggs, incubate them in a pen and release them when they were too big to be seagull prey.