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Pigeons - Household tips to get rid of pigeons

Submitted by Richard

Get tough with pigeons that perch on your balcony, roof or windowsill. Forget scare tactics such as plastic windmills, noisemakers and cut-out cats, owls or hawks - they don't work with these urban pests.

Screen the birds out of wall recesses and window ledges with fine-mesh chicken wire sold at hardware and garden shops.

Sheets of plastic with plastic spikes at narrow intervals are available in hardware shops for use on flat roofs or window ledges. It is impossible for the pigeons to perch on them or find a comfortable foothold.

Run a strand of wire across a ledge at about half the height of a pigeon's breast. This will halve the amount of space the birds can use and will encourage them to move on.

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Comments by: Stephanie from Sunderland UK Aug 20, 2009

our neighbour feeds them and they perch on our roof and wall, leaving their mess allover our garden, We cant hang washing or anything outside due to the amount of mess. Is their anything i can put on my roof to deter them????

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Comments by: Paul T from UK May 30, 2009

Shoot them - they are vermin - they carry disease and they deficate everywhere. Whatever you do, don't feed them.

Not harmless - In fact dangerous

Comments by: Alicia from Not specified Jan 05, 2009

Pigeons transfer dangerous diseases through their excrement. Moreover, I just had my house fumigated because their mites entered my house (from their nest in the balcony)and bit my family. They infested the entire place.

harmless

Comments by: john from uk Jan 02, 2009

pigeons are harmless. feed them during the harsh winter months.

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Comments by: Richard from Toronto, Canada Dec 30, 2008

I strung some plastic chicken wire rising about 2 1/2 inches, along
the bannister of my balcony. They now don't have a place to perch
or to stop of before entering the balcony itself. Works very well,
nor does it impede the view.

how do we stop them

Comments by: gill from uk Jun 26, 2008

how do we stop them perching on the eves of roof and stop them from laying eggs anywhere around, by this i mean, i am now at my wits end and contemplating on applying for a licence for a gun to shoot these VERMIN. they are not wood pigeons or collared doves, they are the cross breeds that pester city centres. for three years, seven pigeons have haunted me and my family and neighbours. they will not move no matter what we do. they are crafty and evil and DIRTY VERMIN that are unwanted in our gardens.all the neighbours are in agreement that the pigeons should be disposed of in some way and are happy to back me up regarding this situation, as they have agreed that they are unhealthy, especially as so many of us have young children and grandchildren. they are spreading unnecessary disease amongst our offspring and ourselves alike

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Comments by: Anonymous from uk May 02, 2008

these are some good ideas but would have been allot better if they were demonstrated with pitures as well.