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?

We have a short lived problem with pigeons, there is a raptor who swoops through when any large bird is daft enough to have a go at our bird feeders by perching on them. All you see is a flash, hear a whoosh like superman and the bird is gone.

My Gran and a couple of neighbours fed the pigeons for years. One day they all got letters from Environmental Health requiring them to stop or they would be prosecuted. Feral pigeons in particular are a health hazard.
Just contact EH tomorrow and have a look on Amazon or similar for pigeon detergents. The strips of spikes are effective and fairly inexpensive

We have same issues with pigeons as well in our flat. There's about 30 to 40 of them that roost above the rooftops of the row of shops below us and they constantly fight and even worse come into my balcony, sit on the railings and tables and chairs shitting everywhere. There's literally a mountain of shit so being in a balcony and no way to get a hose outside so I carry jugs of hot water and wash the shit away almost daily (NO Joke) . They sit on the door handles on my balcony door and shit right there so when we open the door to go out, we step straight into their shit. We've tried the prick strips but they've been useless so we've had to get netting put up as the spikes weren't working I am expecting a baby next month. Their droppings are hazardous when dried and I don't want my child growing up breathing this in. They are vile nasty creatures and in my scenario there's no one who is feeding them, I don't know why they are so attracted to the roof tops of the shops. Occasionally you see a crow attack one and eat it.

EH it is in the morning then. I'll let you know how ineffective that phonecall is.........

Good luck with your pigeon problem Bowsy. I'm looking at about a dozen feral pigeons on the rooftop over the road as I type this. To be fair, some of them are quite handsome birds, some plump and others are quite sleek. However, I'm aware of the potential health hazard they present so I'm happy for them to keep their distance.

A couple of years ago we had pigeons (just one pair, I think) nesting in a gap behind the gutter where some mortar had come loose. Our property manager quickly sent a discreet post control service to deal with them. Luckily, in that short time, the squabs had fledged and the parent birds moved on so we just needed some minor building repairs done to prevent a recurrence. So far, so good.

pest control

I used to live in a basement flat with a tiny (concrete) garden which was constantly full of pigeon shit. We were all sick all the time whilst we lived there - chest infections, breathing troubles etc. It was awful. Never had a chest infection in the 20 years since we left there.

Get a cat?

Make a complaint to Environmental Health.

I'm allergic to cats. Also allergic to birds.

You can hire a hawk man to do a fly through in my area the council wont pay his modest price but will spend a fortune on ineffective spikes they actually NEST on

We had a pigeon problem at our old house - it was getting so bad they were corroding the brickwork with their shit

A man, who I still have in my phone as ‘pigeon man’, came round...with an air gun

He also put a load of spikes down and some reflective stuff that they don’t like.

Problem immediately and permanently solved.

Just warning you if your neighbour is a bit attached to them that death is one of the methods of management!

I like the idea of an air gun.

And the council coming out on a daily basis to clean the shit up while they allow bird lady to feed/encourage the cunts.

Wow. OP really hates birds 🥴

ZOMBIE THREAD!!!!!

I hung out the window, scrubbed it off, then vomited.
That's feeding them too😂

I agree with PP that vomiting while cleaning bird poop off windows is tad dramatic. I liver where seagulls nested. I know how windows can look.

That said, I absolutely agree you should talk to environmental health about all of this because it is not ok to have to live with everything around covered in shit.

Extra point:
Air gun - don't be stupid

Man! Sorry!
Omg I got caught up in one! I should get some "proper mumsnetter" certificate

Shes hoarding animals this won't end well. I would move.

You need a peregrine falcon to fly around a couple of times that will definitely get rid of them.

There are charities that rehome pets with families while the owner is in hospital.

Perhaps the old lady could be encouraged to sign up to care for caged pets or somesuch to stop her pidgin fetish.

They would be indoors in cages so not mess outside and the charity wouldnt give her pets if her place was dirty or smelly so there shouldn’t be any smell, and she could indulge her love if animals while doing good in the community.

ZOMBIE THREAD!!!!!