A resident besieged by dive bombing seagulls who left him bloodied and bruised in a previous attack was stunned when they used deterrent spikes above his home as a nest.
Last summer Martyn Green, from Totnes, Devon, was left with blood running down his neck when an angry gull pecked him in the top of his head.
After reporting the issue to his landlord a number of short metal spikes were placed around the roof to ward off the birds.