Pigeons

[rosielemonaddde]

Aibu to try and remove nesting pigeons from a tree in my garden?

And how should I do it? I don't mean bash them over the head or shoot them, just move them along.

Do light reflectors work? Or a hawk model? 😂

They are shitting all all over the kids garden toys, they make that horrendous gobbly noise constantly and flap excessively everytime anyone goes near the tree. There's at least 4 large ones.

It's just a bloody nuisance and I'm sick of them!

Bunting, shiny foil balloons, a kite that moves around, a marble in a bag of water and on youtube play a recording of a pigeon in distress, these will all work for a while. I have a bird scarer attached to my balcony and there was a pigeon sat underneath it today 🙈 have a variety of thngs and rotate them weekly. A cheap blue tarp pinned over the toys that can be washed with a hose pipe at the end of summer. Good luck, they are persistent and i agree there droppings are vile.

Nobody asked you to comment did they.

Would you be ok to go out every day cleaning the slide the seesaw the swing the sandpit and play kitchen and hose the path down before your baby can play in their garden during a heatwave ?

Well that's your view and that's fine.

My view is that I want my babies to enjoy their garden without having a mass clean up every single day.

There is plenty of wildlife space for birds to move on to.

My one tree in my tiny garden is our safe space so I don't feel guilty about wanting to humanely and gently move them on.

And I would like to add these are massive fucking birds, not babies. As far as I can see there is no nest.

Laughing at “ Gobbly noise” ( We are on a train )
Try a peregrine hawk kite??
They are harmless at least.

They do crap- a lot.

Woodpigeons as well as ferals.

I feel your pain. In similar circumstances I ended up hanging tarpaulins to create a shit catcher also created shade so win win.

I'm sure you'll figure out something OP, loads of practical suggestions here.

Just to assuage my curiosity is it poss you can post a pic or 2 of the birds 'in tree' please?

You don't understand! They're sweet little birdie wirdies worth than you, your house and child! MN is a madhouse sometimes.

Fuckers. I'd make pies out of the lot of them. Yadnbu

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Fucking bonkers the lot of them ! If they want to live in a literal shower or shite they can.
I don't want to.

I will have a go later, not home for a few hours now!

You don't want to eat town pigeon OP but a bit of marinated wood pigeon with tagliatelli is a very tasty dish indeed.

@TheHateIsNotGood

Now now let's not be cruel, you will have the pigeon mafia spitting feathers.

I've had plenty of my own pigeon dramas thankyou very much 😁

I'm not one to ask as I can hand feed the pigeons in my garden and love the messy little fuckers. I do acknowledge they do shit everywhere though. Buy a couple of owl decoys.

Don't worry op my neighbour has finally got rid of the nesting pigeons outside our bedroom windows... thankfully o didn't. So I can be sanctimonious and award myself a special badge 🤣
But I'm so glad he got rid of them 🤫

I feel your pain. We had them under our solar panels a few years ago until we netted them off to stop access. The bloke over the road has just had panels installed and the fuckers are cooing constantly. Can't have my windows open over night and today while WFH they have not bloody stopped with their noise. I think there should be a law that all solar panel installations must include netting!

I love where I live as we have so many different birds chirping and singing, but pigeon noises are another matter. And like you say, they shit a LOT.

A couple of things that worked for us for a while were a fake raven on the roof and throwing a nerf aero howler near where they were resting! Apparently hanging old cds from the branches works as well due to the sun reflecting off them.

Good luck.

I LOVE animals. Very pro wildlife ect ect
I FUCKING hate pigeons!!!!
I've lived in my house for 17 years, we started off with about 3 wood pigeons, we now have a whole bastard flock!
They steal ALL the wild bird food.
They scare and harrass the smaller birds.
They crap literally every where, all over the grass, patio, toys.
We've tried everything and nothing has worked except getting a dog 😆 she chases them off!!
I'm sorry OP!!

You must know that is a ridiculous question. The birds are protected and you are being cruel even to think about this.🙄

Also, ours are the size of turkeys!!!! Massive fuckers.

“I LOVE animals. Very pro wildlife ect ect”

No you don’t, actually, and no you are not. Etc. Etc.

Ok thanks for your input.

And how should I do it? I don't mean bash them over the head or shoot them, just move them along.

Chainsaw, job done.

Aww I love pigeons 🥺

For those that can't imagine the impacts of Pigeon Dramas, may I please direct you to 'The Pigeon' written by Patrick Suskind.

As lent to me by my NB after a sickly pigeon decided to horrendously die on my wall over several days whilst being terribly bullied by it's fellow pigeons, knocking it about off fences, for it to clamber out again and again.
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It finally died a quick death at the hands/jaws of my Jack Russell, which I discovered whilst working earnestly at my desk wondering what the kerfuffle at my feet was.

Little dog playing with a dead, diseased pigeon.

Pigeons are the only birds stupid enough to build a nest on top of another dead pigeon...

Don't think local council or any wildlife group will object to you knocking nest out of the tree in middle of night.
They shoot nesting pigeons in roof of a local church with air rifles, so if the church of England have no problem with removing these flying rats, then don't worry yourself of ridding yourself of them.

Contact pest control. Pigeon droppings can cause serious illness in humans and children are especially vulnerable. From reading this thread, there are loads of people who would positively embrace the idea of pigeon cr@p all over their garden so I don't think we need to worry about pigeon extinction any time soon.