[Closed] Getting rid of pigeons

Magpies don't like pigeons, shoot them they are rats with wings.

You need Kes

Ask Ken Livingstone about the battle of Trafalgar Square's Pigeons.

Apparently (so Google says), it involved starving them and £60k a year on a Hawk.

Get a plastic owl or hawk and mount it on your conservatory

Town pigeons are vile creatures but wood pigeons are not. They partner up for life so make sure you kill them both or one of them will be really sad. They are also very nice in the pot so a bit ying and yang really.

We had this problem at my grandfathers farm, eventually he came up with the idea of catching them at night.

blind them with a torch, someone else climbs up the ladder and grabs em out of the dark.

we caught about 15 of em, put them in a breathable sack and took them to alston in the car, it’s about 45 miles away from my grandfathers place.

we let them out, they took off immediately, heading straight back to my grandfathers place.

they were all waiting on the roof of the barn when he got home😂😂😂

i jokingly mentioned cooking them, and he ‘instantly’ said “ye would need aboot a dozen tae make a guid pie”

i can’t actually help with getting rid of them.

Paint a silhouette of a hawk on a roof. It worked for my old college in reducing the amount of thick black shite on the glass roof.

Get a cat?  Mine used to kill multiple pigeons per day given half the chance.  Once I put her in the attic ( old flat years ago) to get rid of the pigeons nesting there - she got half a dozen in one night

@martymac - perhaps you should have driven the pigeons round the block for 50 miles then bring them back that way hopefully when they got out they would think they had to fly off somewhere 😆

In Sweden I saw a few houses / factories with kites in the shape of a hawk (long stick attached to roof, shortish string to kite). Not sure what they're call we

+ one for a kite hawk.

Its seagulls down here crapping everywhere and stealing ice creams.

Some houses have model hawks and owls but the kite hawks swoop about in the breeze and actually look quite good. You need a long pole to fly them.

Managed to get one with the hose earlier - headed off towards the park over the road, so think it might be a different pigeon to the couple who've been around for years and don't appear to be flying shitting machines.

I'll give the kite a try, anyone tried one of those sound devices?  I'd rather they just pissed off, rather than killed them

haha, this was me on my balcony recently, had to clean up about 20 shits one weekend, next time I saw them I ran out and scared the shit out of them (not literally this time), I see them flying about still but they haven't been back in a month or so.

Get a plastic owl or hawk and mount it on your conservatory

Didn't work for me - we ended up taking the tree down that they were roosting in (the sap off it was also damaging our new decking as well as the sh*t). So now I have a winter or two's worth of logs for our stove too.

Our garden furniture and my daughter's trampoline gets shitted on several times a day by wood pigeons annd collared doves. The roost in our neighbours trees that overhang our garden.

Going to pay to get the trees removed next winter as they ruin our lawn and ash self seeds everywhere.

Get a cat?  Mine used to kill multiple pigeons per day given half the chance.  Once I put her in the attic ( old flat years ago) to get rid of the pigeons nesting there – she got half a dozen in one night

It’s my experience that, while a cat might get a pigeon, (there are still a few feathers around after a neighbourhood cat got one of the wood pigeons that stuff themselves on my bird food), the amount of shit they leave all over my garden and lawn far exceeds, and is far more vile and disgusting than the small amount of pigeon shit that gets left around.

Cat drone

That should confuse the **** out of them.