Pesky Pidgeons

We also have a problem with pesky pigeons.
We got a new bird table and he had to add extra dowels to keep them out. They were sitting in out of the rain.

lets hope your inventions work.

The trouble is they "court" all year round. My cat brought in a squab in early February when the ground was covered in ice! Here, they spend their lives running along the rooftops, bowing to each other and jumping on each other every morning when I'm enjoying my first cuppa in bed. No sense of sedate behaviour!

Yes SBG, I've got dowels between the corner posts of our bird table Thick birds, Pigeons, still sliding down the roof, hovering, trying to get in even after 2 years.
ANGET, They do make a racket, cooing on the roof of the bungalow in the early morning. We've got a bedroom up stairs.

I loathe them, feral or wood...I know lots of people like wood pigeons...I’m sorry I don’t.
Pigeons of all varieties make such a blinking poo mess, chase little birds off and seem to have big plodding feet which damage plants! Oh and when they are on the roof...it’s like a full grown man walking over it to the other side....so noisy.
I have now managed to get Eve in on the pigeon chase! Sometimes she just watches them from a window...lazily.
Grrr....I went out yesterday to clean up their mess...it’s a pain in the backside! I do what you do, Sue, bang on the window, clap my hands...run out after them and shoo them off...it’s a temporary fix, sadly.

we have a flat roof above our bedroom and it sounds like they are tap dancing.

I had to smile at your comments, Kate.

😉

There seems to be a pest for every plant, some big some small, finding and exploiting a niche

We had a dismembered collared dove in the dining room the other day. A few feathers go a long way... Their calls can get wearisome - there are several pairs here and they seem to be shouting We TOLD you, we TOLD you at each other for hours at a time.

I have a pair of wood pigeons & a pair of collared doves, so not too much of a problem really. I don't mind the calls they make but the squirrels I would happily shoot if I could. If only they would stop digging & get off the bird feeders. I curse that guy who introduced them to his estate. I suppose I should say. " forgive him Father as he knew not what he did".

Feverfew, Glad the Squirels don't venture from the recreation ground further than the 2 properties between us.

I hope your windmill will work and stop the birds landing. I think it's a great idea :)

The windmill was turning like a whirling dervish in the storms recently, and 1/2 the bean poles have fallen out of the tree, but no Pidgeons thankfully.

The pigeons in our garden are so heavy it is a miracle they can take off to fly!
I have just put very prickly holly all round my sweet peas to try to keep them off them and have dangled a few ancient cd's as well!
I am not a fan!