to hate pigeons

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They are making my life a misery!

I live semi-rural, and pigeons are taking over. Their coo-ing is waking me every day from 5am or earlier. It's oud, constant and coming from all directions.

Hence up almost 2 hours earlier today than normal. (We are retired and get up around 7am usually.)

They are on my roof, garage roof, neighbours roofs, nesting in the big shrubs in my garden, sitting on my garden fences all day, and crapping all over my flower beds, patio and garden seats.

They have decimated a honeysuckle in the garden, eating it, and even after I covered it with netting, they still sit there pecking whatever they can.

I hate the bloody things.

I feel sorry for pigeons - apparently we domesticated them and then just let them free when they no longer served their purpose (carrier pigeons).

I don’t share the same fondness for magpies, there’s a pair that nest in the tree in front of my house every year and the clever, cocky bastards loudly bully cats and humans alike 😂

I hear pigeons, one is nesting in a tree in the garden, magpies occasionally, oyster catchers and seagulls most of the day as I'm very near the creek.

I gladly put up with the noise from the birds as it's a thousand times better than the barking dog next door but one, the screechy moped riders who live further up the road and the moron who drives a car that bangs, pops and roars as it goes by.

I would gladly machine gun the inconsiderate wanker!!

YABU
They are lovely! Big fat waddling things who try to land on branches too thin to take their weight and build the worst nests ever 😆
www.sadanduseless.com/lazy-pigeon-nests/

Bird scarers. The explosions type. If your entire neighbourhood is in agreement, it might work.

falcons?

I hate them but they do make me laugh....there was a pair forever having sex on our swing, then a third came along...couldn't work that one out! this went on for a few weeks.

2 years ago a pair built a huge nest in our palm tree...it was a metre long! so funny seeing them up there, they looked they were in Ibiza 😆

But the incessant flapping drives me nuts

Yes they do, when building the nest in my garden, they kept dropping the twigs as they were far too wide to get through the hole they'd made in the tree canopy. Kept me amused quite a lot when I watched them.

There is a baby in there I think now but I keep expecting it to fall out the nest, it doesn't look that well built at all. 😁

I'm with you OP - the infernal coo-ing, the noisy flapping as they try to fly and aren't even that good at it. This time of year they start really early too and wake us often.

I am trying to recalibrate my mind to like them though, because there's no getting rid of them!

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They are so funny
One built a nest on the arm of my mums satellite dish and no joke, it was about 4 sticks 😆

I'm rural and have a few pigeons that come to our front garden, much prefer them to the huge noisy crows and pheasants! I quite like pigeons now, bumbling around minding their own business! Surely animal noises are part and parcel of living ruraly, we don't get cars and people etc but have sheep bleating at all hours and farm machinery, I know what I prefer.

We have pigeons living above our front door and outside bedroom window
Have tried every deterrent possible. Absolutely hate them …shitting and cooing at 415 am …path has to be cleaned every day !

You get pheasants? Oh wow!
I saw my first one up close a few weeks back and they are so loud! I never expected them to sound like that!
It sounds like it's screaming

I hate them too. They have destroyed our raspberry bushes and eat any lettuce I plant as soon as it starts to grow.

Pigeon nest in my tree, not sure how clear this will be. 😃

Lovely pile of sticks

YABU. Get some earplugs

Aw, poor pigeons! They're cute. Then again,I like gulls too,they just don't give a fuck. Plus they look so daft doing their tippy tappy dance to trick the worms to come to the surface.

I do understand about the noise though. Even though I live in a city, I am woken up each morning by a combination of magpies, gulls, and possibly other birds. The gulls don't seem to sleep at all as they're always making noise. There's a lamp post right outside my house and they like to sit there and chat. Noisy buggers. But like a PP, I'd prefer their chattering and shouting to the twat opposite who plays music in his car loudly enough for me to be able to sing along, and when he pulls up outside, he'll often sit and listen until the end of the song, or the prick with a really noisy scooter thing that sounds like it's powered by an old rusty chainsaw. He likes to ride round the block over and over and OVER again, any time of day or night.

I love the seagull worm dance. They are so funny

I could do without them crapping all over my car especially in blackberry season but we are quite fond of one who visits and we've nicknamed Pin (Pinhead in full). The small birds eat from the feeders and Pin bumbles about on the ground picking up the bits. He's also quite funny with his seduction techniques with the lady pigeons.

We have pheasants here too. Yes, they're noisy sods!

One spent hours strutting around the garden a few weeks back. They normally stay in the fields over the lane from the house but they do come to look around sometimes.

I think they're as thick as the pigeons, too. The one recently was going round and round the same bush for ages. Memory of a goldfish, maybe...

My aunt and uncle have a pigeon that comes into their garden regularly they call Beaky as its beak is deformed and it can't eat properly.

I think they feel sorry for it and always make sure it gets whatever food they put on the garden as the other birds hoover it up and Beaky is struggling to eat anything quick enough. 😄

YANBU, they are annoying flapping fuckers.

For unwelcome and awful bird noise I might be able to trump all the others with ... a Peacock.

Landed on the shed roof, stayed about four days with its ear splitting shrieks. I was sharing a rented house with a friend and we were both working shifts, friend was police and I worked for newspaper so both sleeping during the day.

It usually started about 4am as it was light, we phoned RSPCA (not interested), local plant nursery that had peacocks in case it was theirs, no they didn't think so.

It was a very long four days before it suddenly took off and we never saw it again.

We might have forgiven it the noise if it had fanned out its beautiful tail for us to admire but it never did. 😃

Completely agree with this. People living in the countryside and complain about there being animals there needs to move. The animals should not be pushed out any further than they already have.