Pigeons!!

[Bowsy5]

The lady who lives downstairs has 6-8 birds in her flat at any given time. She's some sort of one-woman bird rescuer or something.

Fine. The flat stinks of bird shit, but once you put something over your nose when you walk up the stairs, you can cope.

Where I can't cope is the fucking bastard pigeons. She feeds them every morning [cry]
Consequently, there are constantly pigeons everywhere. I woke up this morning to bird shit literally on every pane of glass on my bedroom window.
I hung out the window, scrubbed it off, then vomited.
It's fucking disgusting.

Last week a guy came out to fix my plumbing and he was like 'there's so much pigeon shit, it's unhygienic'. That's a lot coming from a plumber!

Question. Is there any way the woman downstairs can be asked to stop feeding the fucking dirty flying rats and contaminating the entire block?

Does she rent? Could you approach her landlord?

I would take advice from the Environmental Health Dept.

HTH

Her landlord, if she rents, would be the right person. Otherwise, try the council. Pigeons are a serious nuisance. I know some people whose downpipes fell off the wall because they were clogged up with pigeon shit, all because of neighbours thinking it was cute to feed the birds. They ended up spending a fortune to put spikes on their roof because they didn’t want to fall out with the bird-feeding neighbours.

( Tell a grey lie)

Tell her that you've noticed there are actual rats (of the non flying kind) and you've noticed she feeds the pigeons so its most likely that .
You'll contact Environmental Health if she doesn't stop.

The birds in her flat there's nothing you can do about , she probably doesn't notice the smell and can't use air fresheners because the birds are respiratory sensitive .

Can you ask her to check if there's anything in her landing area " I don;t know if there's a binbag or something that 's been missed , there's an God awful stench "

Rescuing animals is admireable . But the rescuers NDN haven't rescued them and they shouldn't have to put up with the unpleasant side of animals

She owns her flat. I rent from the council. It's just getting worse and worse though as they seem to now be all over the building rather than just flapping whenever you left the flat. Honestly? I had to cover my head coming out of the flats due to the flapping fucking birds.
She's an elderly lady and is disabled. Well able to fucking feed the bastard pigeons though.
I get that they are her 'thing', but will get on to Environmental Health. When the plumber (who deals with shit on a daily basis) is commenting on it, it's fair to say it's bad...

Have a heart. She's an elderly disabled women feeding what's probably the most unloved creature in the UK. I get that it's gross but personally I'd be down there helping her. If you don't like it, move.

Oh for God's sake. Help her feed the rats? You've got to be kidding me.

OP should move?! Ridiculous

Is she approachable? It she is maybe have a word with her, she might be totally reasonable and not realise it's affecting you, if not call environmental health or the council. If all else fails, get a couple of cats and let them scare off the pigeons!

I bet you feed your resident rats?

These pigeons are so fat, they'd scare off a tiger, let alone a cat!

I wouldn't want it in my vacinity but I linke your post floating.

It's like someone thought up the most batshit thing they could advise and came up with 'help her feed the pigeons or move out'. PMSL.
FFS you couldn't make this up.

Oh, you were joking? Lol. Sorry.
Nothing would surprise me on MN! I thought you were serious!

Are you sure she's feeding the pigeons and not other garden birds?

My Mum has a bird feeder for her local small garden birds but her neighbours across the street are convinced she's attracting flocks of pigeons (she isn't) to shit on their precious garden fence
They reported her to the council and her housing association as well as harassing all her neighbours trying to start a petition to get her bird feeder removed. The whole nonsense saga is ongoing, and a complete headache. Over a bird feeder.

Speak to your neighbour and try to find a compromise. Feeding the birds is a kind thing to do. You might not give a hoot about the birds but she clearly does (thank god for people like her) and she isn't doing anything illegal.

Get a fake hawk, play bird of prey noises. Call environmental health.

It sounds awful.

This reminds me of the Pimlico Pigeon Lady. Google and read everything you can find.

www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/pigeon-lady-faces-court-for-breaking-no-feeding-asbo-8683123.html

Better than calling the council, find a wildlife rescue that will come and remove the birds and relocate them.

It isn't their fault they are being encouraged and can be taken elsewhere. She does need to be stopped from feeding them though, but although you obviously hate pigeons, they are not to blame for this.

Can you enquire about the bird repellant spikes to be put up (like they have on the roof of a tunnel where people walk under , stops them roosting)

They can see (by the shit) where they like to roost .

At this time of year they don't need fed . There are plenty of randon insects out there , more a need for water .

What does she give them? If its bread it could be harmful to them.

I had a neighbour who fed the local foxes . I had guinea-pigs (kept Fort Knox safe) and my bins all kept safe but they (foxes not guineas) are noisy , messy opportunistic vermin .
She's moved now and the foxes have kept a low profile without their free meals

I'll try environmental health. It's bad when the plumber complains about it.

She has tubs in her house labelled for different birds. One is labelled pigeon.
I feel nauseous again.

You’re being a bit overdramatic OP!

They’re only pigeons. It’s not like she’s posting slugs through your letterbox!

I'm walking through contaminated pigeon shit and bringing it in on my shoes to my flat every day. They're shitting on my window. They're making me sick.

Unless you've experienced it I don't think you can appreciate how stinking built up pigeon crap is. It's horrible, and can be a health hazard.

Vomiting over cleaning bird poo of a window seems a bit dramatic to me.

Generally environmental health will get involved but only if it’s attracting rats/mice.

You might have to look into other methods and perhaps club together with other flat owners like the fake hawks, anti bird things on the roof etc.