A WOMAN was left stunned when she looked out her window to see a seagull ripping off the wing of another bird.

Donette Kruger said the incident happened outside the window of her flat in Seafield Road, Hove.

The 77-year-old said: “I was gobsmacked I had to hold my breath.

“It was happening so close to me as well.

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“It was shocking I’ve never seen anything like it.”

And while plenty of seagulls in Brighton scrap over food, Donette thinks it is something else that caused the incident.

She said: “I think it was all over a woman, because there was a female seagulls close by.”

Donette moved to Hove in 2007, and is originally from Zimbabwe.

She took the series of pictures from her home a couple of months ago.

She said that while the seagulls started as a novelty they soon became a nuisance, but added she had never witnessed anything like this attack.

It is the latest in a series of seagull related attacks.

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Two weeks ago a student was terrorised in his home by a bird that "pecked" through netting to get inside. 

Matt Cotton, 21, spent five minutes trying to force the 'psycho' seagull out of his home in Torquay, Devon, after finding it on his brother's bed.

And in Lyme Regis, Dorset this week, people flocking to the beach to escape the heatwave have found themselves at the mercy of aggressive seagulls.

A recent poll found some 44 per cent of people in the UK are in favour of culling seagulls. 

According to the RSPB, there are around 140,000 pairs of herring gulls in the UK in the breeding season and 740,000 individual birds in the winter. 

There are 17,000 pairs of the great black-backed gull, with 76,000 birds in the UK in winter - which can weigh up to 1.2kg with a wing span of 150-165cm.