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They are driving me mad. Next door has quite a few bird feeders and the pigeons sit and watch the castoffs accumulate from my pergola before heading next door to eat the scraps.
They are making a real mess of my patio and patio furniture.
I’m thinking something like this?
Humane, and the surely can’t land on them?
Leave the pigeons alone, Get rid of the neighbours you could hide them under the patio
On a slightly more serious note I could only suggest getting a cat that ll put the pigeons off hanging around at yours.
I don’t mind the pigeons per se, they aren’t the grotty Greggs variety. Next door has cats and they aren’t interested in them.
I installed a fake hawk. Worked well for about 2 days. Then I boosted it with some old CDs. Also worked well for about 2 days. Pigeons learn fast it seems. Need to up my game. Sharks with fricking lasers or something.
Green lasers, the type you can get from amazon for about £15 or so.
shine it on the ground near where a bird sits, they hate it.
works on seagulls too.
obviously make sure you don’t shine it in their eyes eh.
there is, of course, the potential for it to only work for 2 days, birds aint completely daft.
To answer your question in an appropriate way:
Conjure up a cat and cajole it to catch the creators of the crap.
Shotgun should rid you of the pigeons and probably your liberty.
Those spikes, whilst expensive, do work. No harm to the birds.
Those spikes, whilst expensive, do work.
Presumably that's the reason they're widely used in towns to deter the feral pigeons
To answer your question in an appropriate way:
Conjure up a cat and cajole it to catch the creators of the crap.
I don’t have to conjure up a cat, the neighbours in the flats the other side of my garden fence, and several houses down the road have a variety of cats that make use of my garden as a latrine but they don’t have much effect on the pigeons. I’ve had six going after the feeders at any given time, and if I manage to arrange things in the tree in such a way that they can’t actually get at them, and God knows they will keep trying*, then they just hoover up whatever scraps the starlings, the jay, and various other visitors drop onto the patio below!
*It’s highly amusing watching a very fat wood pigeon edging along a thin branch, leaning over trying to get at a fat filled coconut shell, or a big pine cone filled with fat, then toppling over in a flurry of feathers and looking as though it meant to do that all along!
The magpie and the jay have things well sussed out…
Not a cat, an anti perching panther. There must be one around somewhere
A friend who has just had his top floor flat renovated was advised to use those spikes by his architect
Get a couple of brackets and some wire to string between, less intrusive than spikes. They can't land due to the wire.
I’m thinking something like this?
Humane, and the surely can’t land on them?
These worked for us with a pair of swings. The birds used to sit on the top beam and crap on the seats. I was cleaning up bird sh!t multiple times a day, drove me crazy. Since installing the spikes it's not happened once.
A threaded eyelet on each corner of the pergola, and some fishing line or similar threaded through them. Should stop them from being able to land, or perfect their tightrope walking skills.
Failing that, toy train track with a cardboard cutout of a cat going round on top of the pergola might work.
Similar to above, we have a problem with birds perching on a trellis that's behind seating along a raised bed and shitting on the seat. I put a couple of bits of galvanised wire at the ends and strung some garden twine between them: tight enough to get in the way of them perching on the trellis, but not tight enough that they can perch on the line itself (more an issue for the smaller birds). It's working pretty well. Probably not quite as effective as those spikes, but makes it look less like a prison garden.
Then I boosted it with some old CDs.
Lieutenant Pigeon? Doves? - that'll just attract more pigeons.
You need The Eagles, Hawkwind etc
Prepare a potion of potassium permanganate and place it precisely on a precipice.
Prepare a potion of potassium permanganate and place it precisely on a precipice.
In a pink pot, permanently positioned in proximity to the precipice? Thus paralysing passing pigeons prompted to partake of the purple powder and preventing pergola perambulating proclivities? Perfect.
Shotgun should rid you of the pigeons and probably your liberty.
Not to mention the pergola.
Anyway, I'd be more worried about why the government sees a need to have so much surveillance on you (or your neighbour). What have you been up to recently?
#BirdsArentReal
Put the pigeons in a basket, put the basket in a truck and drive to somewhere miles away and release them there. They're very unlikely to ever find their way back. Job done. Someone else's problem now.
Counter-intuitive:
Hang some bird feeders above your waste ground/ compost. The pigeons will poo beneath where they feed.
bird poo was highly prized as fertiliser before the haber process.
And the pigeons should migrate to the feeder, away from your pergola.
i guess that it’s only a pair of slob-like pigeons that you have to contend with.
interestingly, I found that once I started leaving food for the wild birds, the pigeons would monopolise the bird feeders like a couple of bouncers.
once the feeding pattern was established, the alpha pair would deter other pigeons.
maybe this is the answer for all those areas where pigeons congregate.
you just feed them regularly and instead of a flotilla of feathers, you end up with a pair of slobs who spend their time on a Netflix subscription, eating Pringles and dip🤩🤩🤩
Get word to Mr Orange that thaere's a nuclear lab by your pergola and patio, no more pergola and patio, problem solved! 😉
bird poo was highly prized as fertiliser before the haber process.
I don't think it's any coincidence that both Fritz Haber and a bus load of pigeons were both present at the battle of Ypres. Makes you think
