Help with Neighbour over our bird feeders please

Dora_the_Explorer_5

Oh dear, what horrible pix.
I doubt if you have a vermin problem if you have a terrier who cleans up, mine would even clean up floating fish food in the pond given half a chance !

I'm kind of in the same position as your neighbour, but without the tape, hoover and clock. My next door neighbour has bird feeders which are well visited but rarly by anything more than sparrows and starlings. The birds eat what they want and then sit on my fence and deposit the previous meal on it. I have a beautifully woodstained fence covered in white streaks - permanently and I must admit I find it extremely irritating to look out of the window at bird ****. However, they will move, die, be too poor to buy bird seed, eventually and although relations between us are polite I don't feel he'd shift his feeders if I asked him to.
If you can tolerate things through the summer the autumn gales will see off his windmill and tape and of course, the interesting thing is that if his leylandii are higher than 6 feet the council can order him to lop them. So if you want to call in the council noise officer about the noise you might want to draw his attetion to the height of the hedge.

shammyjack

winnie81 wrote:

Thanks guys I was going to speak to council about noise but was frightened that we'd get locked into a long, horrid neighbourhood dispute but they have lost any thoughts or consideration I felt for them :mad:

They also have a grandfather type clock that is fixed to a joining wall that chimes every 15mins and plays a longer chime on the hour every hour of the day . Its set so high that it can clearly be heard above all music/t.v we may play :mad:

I think I will add more feeders than he knows what to do with just for pettyness sakes

I think I can ask him to remove any over hanging tape as it is classed as "trespass of airspace" although I'm trying to get more info on this

I will keep you updated

Claire x

Just Curious !

Presuming your house is the one on the right in the pic in the OP and the neighbour in question is the seperate house on the left, How can you hear a grandfather clock through a non existant ajoining wall ?

shammy

Heath_Robinson

I think the pic is looking down the garden rather than back towards the house.

tee_pee wrote:

I fell out with my neighbour and he made life awkward by putting obstacles in his garden

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Tahiti

:rotfl: Heath

winnie81

wow Heath there some pretty big obstacles :rotfl:

Just an update hes not spoken to me at all about what his problem is with the feeder and I know for a fact he won't approach me as hes slightly from the dark ages and will only speak to OH :rolleyes:
I was in the garden with the kids all day yesterday and he was in his but nothing was said although he'll run to OH to moan when hes not working at the weekend.
We moved the feeder slighly but he hasn't touched any of the now 5 streamer tape things that is going down one side of his fence but it hasn't bothered the birds one bit they've got used to them and sit next to the streamers :rotfl:

Shammyjack...the photo was taken going down the garden from the living room window. Were in a terrace of 4 and hes on the left were to the right

Were just laughing at the situation now as its comical really all he had to do was ask us to move the feeder which wouldn't of been a problem but instead he had to be petty and childish. The kids like the new addition to the garden as there pretty to them :rotfl:

Oh well I just see it as there old now and can't help there funny ways

Claire

scottishlizzie

Put more feeders up and maybe keep them in the two thirds of the garden away from the fence. Don't let the children miss out on watching the birds - it's such fun. We have several feeders in our garden and have only ever had a couple of rats (we live in a semi-rural area so rats are probably outnumbered by other vermin like grey squirrels which are a real nuisance). We bought posion for one rat and never saw it again, the other drowned in the water butt. You can counter accusations of rat-attraction by putting something under the the feeders to catch the seed. You can buy special discs to catch falling seeds or you can improvise with an upturned biscuit tin lid.

Personally I would be tempted to trim the tapes as you have the right to with with things such as overhanging branches. However, someone else mentioned the importance of avoiding disputes with your neighbours which you would have to disclose if you sold you house. This is something to bear in mind.

Just had a thought - you could put a trellis up a few inches from the fence and grow climbers up it - if it is within your boundary they cannot attach anything to it and if you make it a bit higher than the fence their tapes will soon get tangled up in your lovely honeysuckle or clematis and make no differnce to the birds.

nikiyoung

How about using a hook and eye bolt? and a self closing bar on the gate?
http://www.screwfix.com/sfd/i/cat/95/p1735495_l.jpg
http://www.tooled-up.com/Product.asp?PID=19071&MAN=Draper-Self-Closing-Gate-Spring-13-inch


Would that help with the gate? Then it isn't permanently locked and then if it is left open it will close again? But the pot's do sound a good idea also.
Good Luck
Niki

nelly_2

What I'd do is put the feeder on a pole like in a patio set in one of them discs that you fill with sand/water, so its very easily moved, then every day move it to a new spot so he/she has to keep moving the stupid strips of stuff, in fact I'd re-move it as soon as he is finished

sneekymum

If the things they put up don't seen to be bothering the birds then put some of your own up too.

That'll confuse the enemy.

Mirage_2

Next time you see either neighbour,gush on about how wonderful his garden decorations are & how much your kids love them.They'll probably be taken down pretty sharpish.