We leave in a relatively quiet urban area but not far from coast and countryside. My neighbours have put out bird feed during lockdown. A lot of birdfeed.
However, their garden has no trees and ours has plenty.
The result is that the area is now heaving with birds - seagulls, pigeons, starlings, blackbirds, magpies, crows, bluetits, chaffinches, robins, wrens the whole lot.
Don't get me wrong, I like birds.
But because next door garden has no trees, the birds are feeding next door and then sitting in our trees, or on the fence between gardens. The result is that I am having to re-wash laundry almost every day because it is getting pooed on by birds. My patio is covered in poo, the kids slide is covered in poo, my windows are covered in poo, my car is covered in poo...
And we are being woken up by the birds at 4am every day because there are now so many hanging around that it's really loud.
We always had plenty of birds visiting the garden, and there have been bluetits and robins resident for years, and but it was generally smaller birds rather than the pigeons, gulls, crows, magpies that now dominate.
Is it reasonable to be grumpy about this?
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Cheeseismylife · 27/05/2020 09:56
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