The bird was rescued and then landed a great meal to boot.
When you untangle a poor trapped seagull from a net at a golf course, you always have to feed it a steak bake from Greggs afterwards.
At least that’s what a group of four blokes did when they came across this stricken bird during a round at Kirkintilloch Golf Club near Glasgow.
Callum Quinn, 29, was walking to the tee with his friends Lewis Craytan, Jamie Taylor and Gary Bone when they spotted the gull in distress.
As they approached it, they could see the bird’s neck, beak and wings were completely caught up in a white net.
Footage showed Callum holding the seagull with a towel as Lewis cut the net free from its mouth and body.
After carefully freeing the bird, the men realised it was suffering with low energy.
The solution? Dive into the golf bag to dig out the Greggs steak bake.
‘The bird clearly couldn’t really move, eat or fly,’ Callum, from Ayrshire, said.
‘We could hardly just leave it like that, especially after seeing it struggle.
‘The bird just seemed really tired and didn’t have the energy to fly right away. We had a Greggs steak bake in our bag so we gave it half of that.
‘It made quick work of that bake, I’ll tell you that.’
It’s not clear how the bird managed to get tangled up or what the net was even from, but Callum said it looked like it was from a football goal.
He added: ‘The best way I can describe it, is it looked like a football net.
‘It couldn’t even stretch out its wings.
‘We were just lucky we happened to have the knife to hand so we could actually help.’
The lads had done their good deed for the day and fortunately the seagull was able to eventually fly off afterwards.
In other more light-hearted news, a flock of sheep start behaving strangely after eating 100kg of cannabis in a greenhouse earlier this month.
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